Database Manager for Address Book

Help me! I seem to need to reconstruct my Address Book every time I change my PDA. the card formats are never quite the same....
To date, I have been exporting to text files, cleaning the text tile with MS Word, opening the text file in Excel - doing my clean up and reorganization in Excel - saving as a text file, then importing the text file back into Address Book.
Eh - and every time I do this, SOMEthing get screwed up. This time, I lost all the fax numbers!
Question: Is there a database manager that will open the AddressBook.Data file in native format, allow me to make global changes or individual edits and resave the native format - without needing to do all of the exporting and importing and data corruption?
Thanks for any feedback or comment!
iMacG5 & PB 12"G4 & PB 15" Ti (G4)   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   Extreme Basestation & Belkin Enet Switch

look at <http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/addressbookimporter>
maybe this solves your problem.
What PDA are you using?

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