I can't restaure my adress book backup from Leopard in Tiger

May seem a little complicated, but I had to reinstall Tiger over Leopard which I used for some times. So I had made a backup of my adress book entries (.abbu)and tried to restaure it in adress book on tiger but nothing had showed up.
Is there anything to do with the system, is it that the adress book on Leopard version is no more compatible on Tiger?

Do you know if there's a compatibility problem between Leopard and Snow Leopard.
It's not that there's a problem, it's that they are different versions and some things have changed, so trying to import a backup from an earlier version probably won't work. If you have another Mac with Tiger on it (even on it's own bootable partition, you can load the backup and then export all the contacts as a single vCard file and get it into Address Book on Leopard or Snow Leopard without a problem.

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My only concern about resetting premissions (and ACL???) is that it will exacerbate my backup disk space wastage issue as it will result in full backup of my entire home folder (about 400GB).
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to the day before this shambles started - will time machine treat my restored account as a modification of all files and try to back up a fresh copy of everything on the basis that it has been modified - or is it smart enought to realise what I have done and carry on doing only incremental backups?
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A full system restore (usually) results in only an incremental backup, but TM does a "deep scan" to compare everything on your system to the backups, to see what's different. That will find that everything in your home folder has changed, so back it all up anyway.
If yes I will likely put all my historical backups onto a cheap 500GB drive and put it in a drawer and start new backups on TC
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