AddressBook Suddenly has over 115,000 entries!

Since I began syncing my Treo 650 with iSync (for iCal and Address) and Hotsync for Memos, etc., AddressBook has acquired over 115,000 blank entries that appear as "no name" in AddressBook and "unnamed" on the Treo. AddressBook is totally bogged down and iSync cannot complete syncing now. I was also syncing a sony ericcson 520a phone and an ipod with iSync. I deleted the "no names" from AddressBook a couple of times, but now the program will hardly open, much less allow me to choose delete from the edit menu. I use the 160g hard drive as my startup drive but the original 30g is also bootable, though it has recently become (inexplicably) full. I repaired permissions on both discs a few days ago, and ran all of the Cocktail routines. Any ideas how I can get out of this mess, and If I do, what is the best way to synchronize these devices? I will probably be buying a new iMac soon. Do Tiger and Sync 2 work better? Should I be using "the missing sync" or some other program? Thanks for any help!

Lucas,
syncing is always tricky, especially with non-Apple hardware.
Did you use backup from inside the AB application?
Tiger may solve some of your issues, but you will get better help when you post these questions on the Panther forum
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=740
Looking at your problem, I suggest you could need some serious repair software like DiskWarrior.
Start making backups of all your essential data before this gets worse.

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