Address Book won't load

I have a G4 Dual Processor Power Mac running 10.4.8. The Address Book suddenly stopped working. When I click on the icon, it looks like it wants to load, but doesn't. If I try to access the Address Book through Mail, it caused Mail to quit.
I've thrown away the preferences, I've reinstalled the Address Book application from the System Disk and I've reinstalled the Mail program too.
Any ideas?

I repaired the disk, and permissions, Address Book is still not loading. I trashed the preferences and reinstalled the App, again nothing.
3. In the Finder, go to /Applications/ and try
to open Address Book by double-clicking on it. Look
at the bottom of the Console windows for messages
that might be written there as a result. They may
provide some clues.
When I try to load the application, this is what the Console Log shows:
From: [email protected]
Subject: console log
Date: April 18, 2007 5:03:00 PM PDT
To: [email protected]
2007-04-18 16:52:09.294 Address Book[230] -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746
2007-04-18 16:52:22.524 Address Book[231] -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746
2007-04-18 16:52:25.027 Address Book[232] -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746
After opening Mail, this is what I got:
2007-04-18 16:54:21.074 Mail[236] -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746
2007-04-18 16:54:26.774 upgradedb[241] can't upgrade SyncServices data schema from version 0 to version 47: can't create sync database for soundadviceii: Permission denied
2007-04-18 16:54:26.774 upgradedb[241] database directory: /Users/soundadviceii/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local
2007-04-18 16:54:26.777 SyncServer[240] fatal error during sync server initialization: can't upgrade data directory from version 0 to version 47 (/Users/soundadviceii/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local)
2007-04-18 16:54:27.902 Mail[236] SyncServer is unavailable: exception when connecting: connection went invalid while waiting for a reply
2007-04-18 16:54:27.902 Mail[236] Exception raised during monitored invocation of _synchronouslyTellSyncServicesToRegisterAndSync, exception: Can't connect to the sync server: NSInvalidReceivePortException: connection went invalid while waiting for a reply ((null))
Apr 18 16:54:59 StudioC mdimportserver[222]: -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746
Any new ideas? Thanks for your help!

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