How do I make Address Book default for vCards

I use Apple Address Book (6.0) and have the Lion O/S 10.7.1on my 2 Macs. My Apple Address book syncs with my Gmail (Google Apps) contacts. Recently when I opened a vCard, Outlook for the Mac attempted to open the vCard. I cancelled this as I no longer us Outlook for the Mac, but have only used Apple Mail and Address Book for several months. As I cancelled the opening process, there was a brief message, "Rebuilding database". About 30 minutes later I realized that all contacts in my Apple Address Book were missing. I quickly looked at my Gmail contacts and saw that the only contact was the one for the vCard I imported. After recovering from a panic attack (I have over 2,000 names in my contact list), I went to my Macbook Air laptop, which was asleep during this time, and was able to export my Address Book to my iMac. The Macbook Air Address Book had synced with Google Apps the day before.
After the recovery, everything seems in order except when I check for duplicates in Google Apps Mail Contacts, I find that I now have 2,000 duplicate contacts. When I check for duplicates in Apple Mail I am told there are 83 duplicates.
I am still not sure what caused this to happen and I am still considering how to prevent this in the future, and how to resolve the duplicate contacts issue. I need to understate which contact list dominates - Apple or Gmail?
But my first step is to make Address Book the default for vCards. How to I do this. Next I will work on the duplicate problem.

I don't have or use Outlook 2011 but based on my past experience wth Outlook and Entourage it uses its own contacts by default and can't be configured to use an external resource. However, you might learn more on the Outlook support forums since this forum is primarily for Apple products.

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