Error opening Address Book

When trying to open Address Book I get this message: "You cannot use this version of the application Addressbook with this version of Mac OS X". Only thing is, the address book CAME with this Leopard version, didn't it? I've been using Entourage mainly so I'm sure it's been a while since using Address book, but now that Entourage has crashed (so sad as you cannot get a new version!!!) I wanted to go back to Addressbook, but find I cannot access it. Are there any Addressbook updates I can get? Which package does Addressbook come with these days? It's neither in iLife or iWork, both of which I've updated.
Any help would be valued!
- Pingen

Address Book is part of the Operating System, not iLife, as you suspected. What version of Address Book do you have installed? Have you recently ran Software Update to see if there’s a newer version? I have version 4.1 on Leopard 10.5.8.
Perhaps there’s a problem with Disk Permissions. You could run Disk Utility to check your permissions. To Repair your permissions you may need to run that function a few times. I think on Leopard you have to repair permissions after booting from the Install disks but you can try it first from your internal drive and see if it will run without rebooting.

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