Cannot place image on contact in Address Book

Hello,
When trying to place an image by either dragging and dropping, editing and double clicking on the image placeholder the image does not stay.
I have opened console and found the following when trying to drop an image (it can be any image, jpg, gif, png of any size)
28/09/11 6:49:52.640 AM Address Book: Error deleting large image: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "“10DB0044-275C-49E1-9070-C7E7A9715E8F-e2acd380.tiff” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access “Images”." UserInfo=0x7f90deaf4580 {NSUserStringVariant=(
Move
), NSDestinationFilePath=/Users/rachealleeb/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images/10DB0044-275C-49E1-9070-C7E7A9715E8F.jpeg, NSFilePath=/Users/rachealleeb/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/10DB0044-275 C-49E1-9070-C7E7A9715E8F-e2acd380.tiff, NSUnderlyingError=0x7f90e230bdb0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied"}
I have repaired disk permissions but it has made no difference and I am an administrator of the computer
Please help

I worked it out.
The Images folder within: /Users/rachealleeb/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ had no access. Gave myself Read write. all is good.

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