Archival of address book crashes under snow leopard

Help!
When I try to do a File->export->address book archive, address book crashes.
Here's part of the dump:
Process: Address Book [2118]
Path: /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
Identifier: com.apple.AddressBook
Version: 5.0 (862)
Build Info: AddressBook-8620000~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [131]
Date/Time: 2009-09-04 08:44:50.042 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 2457 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 3970 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 84817736-6170-43AD-AD0E-BE6767777460
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: release
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

I can't import Archive to Address Book which was wiped clean during SL install.
No crash.
Just doesn't happen.
I have checked for permissions problem, everything read and write.
I posted this here in the hope that anyone with advice for your problem might have a suggestion for me as well!
That €29 doesn't seem such a gimmie after all.

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