Addresses Have Disappeared

I just sat down to my computer to do some email and when I brought up my address book every address vcard/file/data was completely gone. I have done nothing unusual or delibirate that would cause this. I cannot even find them on my idisk backup. Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. We are talking about 300 contacts +/-.
macBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Note that there are several Library locations - YourHardDisk/Library and YourHardDisk/System/Library are shared by all users. Each user on the system gets YourHardDisk/Users/YourID/Library. To avoid needing to know the name of YourHardDisk and YourID the abbreviation "~" is generally used in these discussions (and in the Unix world generally) for the path YourHardDisk/Users/YourID.
Address Book stores its data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook. If this folder does not exist then you have indeed lost all your contacts, and Address Book will make a new folder for you when you next start it.
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