Address Book & Subscriptions after upgrade

Before upgrading I had 400 contacts in my address book. And was subscribed to someone else's address book that had 1,500 contacts. After upgrading the address book I subscribed to was gone and my address book now has 1900 contacts. I went into time machine but all my contacts pre upgrade are gone. Any ideas of how to get my old address book back with out having to go through and pick out the 1,500 contacts I don't want in my own address book?

So after spending 3 hours on the phone with apple care this morning I got the issue on my computer resolved - hopefully this will help you. Joe, the guy I was speaking with was a great help and stuck it out with me till we got it fixed.
The problem seems to be with mobile me and the sync services file. Here is what I did that hopefully will work for you:
1. Create a "Test" user account.
2. In that user account login to mobile me and sync your contacts. I had my 500 contacts download and the 1500 I was subscribed to.
3. Sign out of mobile me in the Test account. After I did this the extra 1500 users disappeared. You may need to quit and restart address book.
4. Now that I had my own 500 contacts, I went to "File > Export... > Address Book Archive". It creates an '.abbu' file on your desktop.
5. Move the .abbu file to your main user account.
6. Switch back over to your main user account.
7. Go to Mobile Me in system preferences and sign out (doing this in my main account did NOT remove the extra 1500 contacts)
8. I went to "File > Import..." and choose the .abbu file I just made with my good 500 contacts.
9. A dialogue window will you if your sure you want to replace all the info in address book - yes you do.
10. Quit and reopen address book and presto! my 500 contacts were back and the 1500 I subscribed to were gone.
11. Restart your computer for good measure and the re-enable mobile me syncing.
Joe said he was going to pass my case onto engineering, and they should address this issue further / post and knowledge base article about the problem.
I hope this helps others! Good luck.

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