Address Book Won't Print to file or printer or PDF

Greetings -
Using 10.4.8 on MacBook Pro 17" - Address Book will not print to the printer or to a PDF file when I attempt to print ALL of the addresses. It works for just 1 address. I didn't try 50, 60, etc. to see where it stops. I have about 750 names/contacts.
Archived here is the same question, but with no answers given.
Help!
David

I have giving up on syncing contacts. In my iMac Address Book, everything is correctly entered and formatted to suit the country where the contact lives.But MobileMe appers to allow you to select only the US, France, Germany and Japan, I think. Other countries seem to default to a US format. Despite the opening of yet another Apple Shop in the UK—in Covent Garden—MobileMe apparently can't recognize a UK address. What seems to happen when I try to sync addresses is that MobileMe thinks it has found different address entries on my coputers, and tries to replace what are correct formats with incorrect ones.
I have just been right through my iMac Address Book, and the MobileMe contact list, and made sure that the data was entered in the same order. The only difference in the two lists was that the Address Book had address data correctly formatted for country in which the contact lives. Yet when asking for the Address Book to sync with MobileMe, the system says it wants to add 109 new contacts and delete a handful of others. These 109 addresses would either be duplicates of existing contacts, or replacements with the address formatting pushed into a US format.
There has been another problem. Some time ago I found that the MobileMe contact list was full of duplicates in which the same data was displayed twice in a different order or a different format.
Unless I am missing something, it seems that syncing using MobileMe, with its lack of address formatting options, is useless for anyone living outside the US, France, Germany or Japan, and useless for them if they happen to have any foreign friends.
Apple seems unconcerned about this. Surely they must have realized that syncing contacts wouldn't work for many, perhaps most, users, yet they continue to promote it as a simple and effective option.
Or am I missing something?

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