Address book sharing slow

hello, it is now two weeks we are running our new MACs . we are all 10.6.2 (3 clients + 1 mac mini server)
I was able to create a shared address book adding the same account on each clients.
What I see is that it is really slow, useless for business applications, you can wait for minutes after you click on one contact or jump from one group to a different one.
our database is made by 1000 contacts and approx 6Mb
any idea?
thanks.

Join the club. This service prominently featured in SL Server sales literature is, to be charitable, not useable with many contacts. Our database is about 3400 so maybe it works with less than a thousand, Apple support could not tell me. To save you some trouble it is not your hardware as we are running a quad-core Xserve and have increase RAM to try to get this to work to no avail. We were told early on in the 10.6 life cycle that we should use a shared MobileMe account. Works better that Address book sever but not reliable - sometimes doubles contacts, sometimes we find differences between Address Books on different Macs, etc., etc.
Also, I cannot recommend Daylight. Wrestled with it for 5 years and finally gave up to try Address Book Server when Apple released it on SL.
Sure seems like this should not be so hard!
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I was a heavy user of categories and contacts in outlook - had two contact folders, A and B, with categories in each. Additionally for some categories there is a third field - location. In total there are 2500 contacts I deal with.
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