Deleted Files recovered

I recently was using Boot camp and managed to overwite or wrongly partition. Lost all my stuff and re installed Leopard. Using newly purchased Stellar Phoenix recovery software and retrieved all the files. However, when trying to open any of them the look as if they are loading but nothing appears. For example address book will not open. The one that comes with the Leopard installation disc does but has no addresses

Well what you are "seeing" and "recovering" is probably the registry, and it even might show the correct name and size. That won't be the actual data. Problem is, with what you describe, you most certainly overwrote the actual data.
Backups are a requirement. You can yell at Apple, or the computer, or kick your dog, but this is how it is on ALL computers. Sorry.
Let me add one more thing. Maybe DataRecovery is the application you should try. I am not standing over your computer, so I do not know what you did to recover data, nor do I use the software you did. DR works for me, with the caveat that I do NOT overwrite. Try it. Might save you.

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