All I want to migrate is my address book?

All I want to migrate is my address book from my old G4.
I already set up a user on my G5 and migrated everything from my G4 but I had to create a new user (didn't really want to) which I didn't want to do.
All I really need migrated from the old is the Address book. Is there a way to do this? or should I try to export the address book file? from the old G4 and import to the new.
Plus is there a way to combine users into a single user?
Thanks in advance.
G5 2.3 GHZ Dual Core   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Launch Address Book on the G4 and at the menu bar, go to File and select Back up Address Book.
Launch Address Book on the G5 and at the menu bar, go to File and select Revert to Address Book Backup selecting the backup file created on the G4.
You can't combine users into a single account but you can transfer data from one user account to another. Depending on how you do it, you may need to update or change permissions when transferring data from one user account to another especially when each user account has a different short name and password.
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