Cant add or delete in Address Book

Address Book has become very weird. I cannot add or permanently delete cards or edit the existing cards. When I select a card, the edit button is unavailable (grayed out) as are New Card, New Group etc in the File list. I have used Edit to delete cards but they reappear when Address Book is reopened. I am working in OS 10.4.7, Address Book 4.0.4. I am using Missing Sync 2.5.0 b2 to synch my PDA. I have not made any changes in Address Book in some time so have no idea when this started. Have tried restarts, trashing Address Book.plist, I would reinstall Address Book but can’t find it in Mac downloads.
Has anyone else had this problem or have any ideas?

There could be some corruption in the AB database.
Turn of syncing (I never trust it!).
File/Back up address book (so we can recover if everything goes wrong)
Select all your contacts
File/Export vCards
Quit AB
Find and delete ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data
Restart AB
File/Import/vCards
Hopefully, anything bad in the database will be cleared out by this, possibly at the expense of one or two contacts.
Another thing to try is to check your fonts. AB uses LucidaGrande and Helvetica; use Font Book to verify that they are OK.
AK

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