All my contacts vanished!

i copied and pasted a new contact into my address book, and all my groups dissapeared and looks like there is no info in the address book. the only thing that shows is a contact with "no name" and no info. . . i used command z to try to undo whatever just happened, but it just added another "no name" to my contacts. how do i get my contacts back?!?
thanks,

No idea what is happening, there were 2 more posts like that recently, here's one...
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=8209254
Have you done any Disk/OS maintenance lately?
Do you have any/all these files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.previous
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.beforesave

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