Address Book, Spotlight ERRORS!

Hello members and outside viewers,
These are software related issues, but I think of might be Mac Pro specific. I migrated everything from a G5 some time ago, but these issues occured in the near past.
First: My Address Book behaves very strange.
After startup, the window freezes. Only if I minimize and click again, works OK. I began used to it, BUT
Since yesterday, Addresses gone, disappeared from every entry.
Under Preferences » Address Format is uneditable, it has "Item3" in it, unclickable drop down menu.
Under Preferences »Template » Add Field several options are grey: "Phone", "Email", "Related Names", "Instant Messaging", "Address".
Please can you help me! I deleted both plist files from Preferences folder and deleted the whole folder under Application Support/AddressBook, also reinstalled Address Book from Leopard DVD, but nothing helped so far.
Second thing: when I invoke Spotlight, and start typing after 2-3 seconds, it quits and also Dock unusable, restarts automatically. Spotlight is useless, it behaves every time like this. Spotlight in Finder windows are OK, system-wide menubar has this error. Also, it was suddenly gone wrong like Address Book. Can I think of some virus?
P.S. (off topic), might helpful to share: very frustating, that registering to Discussions took me over an hour.
With Safari 4.03 the "Name" and "AppleID" are blank fields on "Create New User Account", therefore impossible to proceed. ( Error: invalid AppleID. Please login with a different AppleID )
With Firefox you can actually see them, but "?" instead of accounted letters.
After changing My Info, I finally realised that Apple ID should be complete e-mail address.
That means my "visionfresh" account is totally different from "[email protected]" (or me.com, whatever..)
Not to mention that I created a new Apple ID, that was also not working.
Bottom line: my "[email protected]" account is working also in Safari after editing my Name (replace accented characters), but I could not proceed with the nickname "visionfresh", I chose "matyashuszar".

{quote:title=Console.App shows this when starting Address Book}
2009.09.03. 18:45:48 Mail[228] SyncServices[ISyncSessionDriver]: Caught top level exception: I/O error for database at /Users/matyashuszar/Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds. SQLite error code:1, 'SQL logic error or missing database' Stack trace: (0x91ffcfeb 0x966c4e3b 0x92071f1a 0x920713f8 0x9206d18b 0x920a2e40 0x92097c2d 0x920977da 0x92077001 0x38767c 0x38758d 0x38751a 0x92061302 0x920a7260 0x920a6ad4 0x920a67ff 0x920633c8 0x92062f99 0x92061ea0 0x387303 0x38748e 0x1627da55 0x94ddd1e8 0x94dc923d 0x94e632cb 0x904d1dfd 0x904d19a4 0x95d56155 0x95d56012)
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] -[ABAddressBook setDefaultCountryCode:] called with unknown country code 'us'
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] NSScanner: nil string argument
2009.09.03. 18:51:27 Address Book[6144] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
{quote}
Please help what to to do!

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But I just now (such is life) I accidentally stumbled upon the simple solution:
1. Enter System Preferences and click Security & Privacy.
2. Select the Privacy tab and then on Contacts on the left hand panel.
3. In the right hand panel ("Allow the apps below to access your contacts") just tick the Contacts box.
4. And Voilà! - at least it worked for me - hope it does for you.

"Error while printing" error in Address Book

When I attempt to print a list of address book contacts in Address Book.app (both as a PDF or to a printer), I receive an error message simply stating "Error while printing." I've repaired my permissions and tried deleting the preferences for Address Book. How can I fix this and print out the list?

After discovering that my problem was more general (affecting the whole system, and not just Address Book), I looked in the Printer forum here in the discussions and referred to this one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1264657&#1264657
I attempted to do as one user suggested and replace the 'libConverter.dylib' file. It did not work, and I returned the original 'libConverter.dylib' file to its folder. Magically, printing works now. Seems like it just needed to reset itself.

Address Book, Spotlight ERRORS!

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