Address book stuck and all contacts gone

when i open up address book none of my contacts appear and switching from directories to all contacts just resizes the empty window back and forth. when i try to resize the window using the handle on the lower right corner it keeps stretching out horizontally till it runs off the screen. I checked for the Helvetica font in system/library/fonts and it is there. it is also activated in font book. tried dumping com.apple.AddressBook.plist from my user/library/preferences, and tried various recommendations i found on these forums for renaming and replacing files in user/library/application support/address book. also tried dumping the address book from applications and reinstalling using pacifist.
nothing has worked.
in console i get either:
Address Book[614] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (2) beyond bounds (2)
or
Address Book[614] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)
i was considering reinstallling the 10.3.9 combo update. anyone have any other suggestions?
thanks

My BB is Curve 8310 Version 4.5.0.182 (platform 2.7.0.106

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