File Sharing - Cannot disconnect or add user from Address book

Hi all,
Had a look through the support pages but haven't found an answer to this issue I am having....
I have recently wired a LAN between my macbook and a friends macbook. My problem is that I "connected' to my macbook using my username and password from the other computer. Once the computers were connected (and file share is switched on) he had full access to my hard drive (which was what I expected). However, we are unable to 'disconnect' the file share connection without disabling the file share option within system settings! The password was not saved in his keychain. Whenever we connect the computers he has full access to my drive!
In our case it is simple enough to ensure security as the example is simply to solve, however, the wider implications of not being able to manually disconnect from a source are obvious. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
The second problem I have is that I am unable to added a named user to the 'file sharing' user list. When I choose the user from my address book the mac asks for a password. Once this is entered and accepted the window disappears but no name is added to the file share list!
Apologies if these seem idiot problems but they are slowly driving me mad!!
Message was edited by: Keef_S

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I sort of cured the AddressBook problem but I have no idea why it works and I am not happy with my fix. What I did was deleted the contents of ~/Application Support/AddressBook and ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.addressbook.plist. I then rebooted and opened up AddressBook. The database was empty except for Apple and my own card which OSX creates by default. I then attempted to create a new contact and all of my old contacts magically appeared! I then deleted the new test contact and edited the contact I was originally trying to add a phone number to. I then quit address book and re-launched it and the new phone number was still there! I checked console.log and there were no errors reported this time (previously I was getting lots of error messages each time I quit and re-launched AddressBook.
I have no idea where those contacts came from since I cleared out the entire database and the cache, but whatever happened, it seems to work now.
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