Address Book Sharing and Subscription Trouble

I have successfully subscribed to a friend's Address Book from my Mac laptop at work, a G5 PowerPC laptop running MacOSX (10.4.7); however, when I try this same subscription from my home computer, an iMac Intel Core Duo (20"), I have trouble. The trouble is that when I try to subscribe to my friends published (to me) Address Book from my home computer, I just get a spinning kaleidescope and the Address Book application hangs indefinitely.
What can I do? Who can I call for help..?
thanx,
clint

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I've been wrestling with this problem for a few months now and have been unable to resolve it.
Problem
When I am in Address Book.app and select "Preferences" I get a spinning beach-ball of death. Eventually the preferences will appear. If I then select 'Sharing' I will once again get a spinning beach-ball that will eventually go away but the sharing preferences don't (usually) appear. At that point I also get an error in my console.log;
2007-08-03 13:41:23.998 Address Book\[3063\] Read attempt failed (1,60)
I have also seen additional errors;
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Additional information
* I was running AddressX and have now removed it in case it was in some way related to this problem.
This error occurs on the other account I have on my MacBook pro too.
I am running an up-to-date 10.4.10
I have no items in the 'Sharing' preference pane on either of my accounts.
I did have 'Sync with Exchange' ticked on one of the accounts (on which I have never used the address book). I have now unticked that option and the problem remains.
Things I have tried
1- I have verified my disk. No problems reported.
2- I have run 'plutil ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist' and it came back OK.
3- I removed each of the 3 .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ in turn, logged out and in again and recreated the problem each time.
4- I removed the (Adium) add-in scripts that were in ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ and the problem still occurs.
5- I removed the (Skype) plugins in /Library/Address Book Plug-ins/ and the problem still occurs.
I wonder if there are any kind souls out there who can suggest any further debugging steps I could take to resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
chown -R us ./base
Niall

Austin,
The fonts validated OK so I removed Address Book.app plus the preferences using AppDelete. This deleted all the relevant files including the .data file that actually holds the address book.
Whilst I was downloading the combo updater (even before I reinstalled the 10.4.8 version of AB) an iSync window popped up telling me that it was syncing and going to add 2 new addresses and delete 1189 (the number of addresses I have). I cancelled the sync. This was a surprise to me as I don't run iSync usually- I guess MacOS X maintains a separate address book somewhere.
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I use Outlook on a PC at my office, and I have an sbcglobal/Yahoo mail account. I look upon my office Outlook as my ultimate contacts list (over 1,100 entries) and my calendar.
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Hello Allan -
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I have successfully exported my yahoo address book/contacts as a .vcf file Yet - once I have expunged the prior Address Book data and want to now import the NEW Yahoo data to rebuild the database it only takes (enters) the phone numbers and does NOT import ANY of the address information. I am positive I did this once since our original exchange and everything transferred just fine, but now….?!
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