Cannot find address book sharing

I've logged into iCloud, and when I pull up my address book, it does not offer me the option to "share" my address book with other iCloud subscribers.

Your address book is a separate application called AddressBook in your Applications folder.
Mail remembers previous address and you can see that in Mail menu > Window > "Previous recipients".
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I want to share an Address Book on one system with 3 other users through MobileMe. I will also allow the 3 other users to add, delete and change the contacts. All 4 systems have their own MobileMe accounts.
We make extensive use of custom relationship fields. Will those fields transfer with the with the shared contacts, or are they left behind?
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@taylor thanks for the suggestion, but it's not quite what i had in mind. The red -/green + buttons are used to add/remove more items in the same category, ie., phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, etc. If you finish editing a record and then click on one of these fields, you get a contextual menu with various options.
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A media file in an email. What type of a file? Was the email from a trusted source?
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The app icon - I meant go to the Applications folder, find the Address Book application and click on it one to select it.
COMMAND + i - Command is the key next to the space bar (the one with a "clover" type of a symbol and command written at the bottom). Hold the Command key and tap "i" - this shows the Info box, and General is at the very top.
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I have tried tossing out the plist files, any prefs or settingsfile i could find with connection to address book
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My address book covers everything from family, several groups of friends, financial companies, software companies, health related companies, work venders, co-workers, past job references and several different mail lists participants. As you can see I have many aspects of my life that should not be viewed by all other aspects of my life.
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Join the club. This service prominently featured in SL Server sales literature is, to be charitable, not useable with many contacts. Our database is about 3400 so maybe it works with less than a thousand, Apple support could not tell me. To save you some trouble it is not your hardware as we are running a quad-core Xserve and have increase RAM to try to get this to work to no avail. We were told early on in the 10.6 life cycle that we should use a shared MobileMe account. Works better that Address book sever but not reliable - sometimes doubles contacts, sometimes we find differences between Address Books on different Macs, etc., etc.
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Address Book (Sharing) Preferences hang

Hi,
I've been wrestling with this problem for a few months now and have been unable to resolve it.
Problem
When I am in Address Book.app and select "Preferences" I get a spinning beach-ball of death. Eventually the preferences will appear. If I then select 'Sharing' I will once again get a spinning beach-ball that will eventually go away but the sharing preferences don't (usually) appear. At that point I also get an error in my console.log;
2007-08-03 13:41:23.998 Address Book\[3063\] Read attempt failed (1,60)
I have also seen additional errors;
2007-08-03 13:18:00.431 Address Book\[2810\] Could not find image named 'QuestionMark'.
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Additional information
* I was running AddressX and have now removed it in case it was in some way related to this problem.
This error occurs on the other account I have on my MacBook pro too.
I am running an up-to-date 10.4.10
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Things I have tried
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2- I have run 'plutil ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist' and it came back OK.
3- I removed each of the 3 .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ in turn, logged out and in again and recreated the problem each time.
4- I removed the (Adium) add-in scripts that were in ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ and the problem still occurs.
5- I removed the (Skype) plugins in /Library/Address Book Plug-ins/ and the problem still occurs.
I wonder if there are any kind souls out there who can suggest any further debugging steps I could take to resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
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Austin,
The fonts validated OK so I removed Address Book.app plus the preferences using AppDelete. This deleted all the relevant files including the .data file that actually holds the address book.
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