Address book stopped synching & lost photos

Address book has stopped synching fully with my .Mac account and indicates it has only 10 contacts in the online address book. It appears to go through the motions of synching and there is sufficient memory left in the .Mac account to allow it to save all of them. In addition, all the photos that I'd put in the desktop version of Address Book have evaporated.
Help!

OK. So I found an older thread about this on here. I quit AB and reopened it in the Finder. Now it is working properly.

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