Blackberry Storm - Address Book Corrupt?

Contacts are either starting to disappear or can't be editted. Why is that? If I can find the contact, but want to make an update... I get the following error message.
Error Message:
Contact updated externally. Changes will be lost and viewer closed.
If the contact is missing, sometimes I can find that missing contact if I go through the call history and view the contact info from that old entry, but I noticed that all new calls either called or received don't list the name in call history no more. What's going on? I don't have a very large address book, it has less than 300 entries... Is there a utility to fix the corrupted address book database? That's what I'm assuming is the problem... Why do contacts disappear in the address book, but I can later find them if I go through a round about method of access via call history nor can I edit them?

jonathan% ls -aleO Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/
total 904
drwx------+ 9 jonathan jonathan - 306 Apr 17 12:01 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 52 jonathan jonathan - 1768 Apr 16 11:20 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------@ 1 jonathan jonathan hidden 6148 Apr 17 08:21 .DS_Store
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Apr 17 12:01 .database.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Sep 29 2007 .skIndex.ABPerson.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 442368 Apr 17 07:14 AddressBook-v22.abcddb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 332 Apr 17 07:10 Configuration.plist
drwx------ 3 jonathan jonathan - 102 Apr 17 07:08 Images
drwx------ 253 jonathan jonathan - 8602 Apr 17 08:12 Metadata

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0: group:everyone deny delete
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-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 332 Apr 17 07:10 Configuration.plist
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