Can't locate address Book

Hi everyone, first of all, I'm new to Mac. I find my way around and is getting more and more from this system. This morning, I installed a sync program for my HTC touch phone and everything works fine. I decided to look to my address book and this is simply impossible to locate it.
It is not in the application folder however, I can access the contacts if I launch the Mail program and browse. I also tried to search the drive for "address book" with no results.
Anyone can help?
Thank you !

Try gumsie's suggestion of enabling the view of hidden files and folders. But I suspect there is a permissions problem there. Time to go back to the terminal then!
1) Open Terminal
cd /applications
ls -lf | grep 'Adobe'
2) Take note of the permissions structure listed for the directory (if it is listed), and post back.
3) If it is listed try:
cd /'Adobe Device Central CS3'
ls -lf | grep 'Address Book'
4) Take note of the permissions structure listed for the directory (if it is listed), and post that too
5) If we are looking good to this point (unlikely):
mv /Applications/'Adobe Device Central CS3'/'Address Book.app' /Applications

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