I can't retrieve my address book data from G Drive to import to new addr book in Snow Leopard

I am really annoyed by Apple these days. Just had to purchase iwork and sundry other software after upgrading to Snow Leopard and the Lion on my system. Now, have just received my wife's iMac from being "fixed" the hard drive was brloken. It was supposed to have had Snow Leopard uploaded for me. It was not so I have just done that, however I can't get the address book fron the G Drive to upload to the new system. Each time I access the address book on the G drive I get a message saying that it is an old system (4.1.1) and will not open in this system. How do I get that data off the G Drive and onto the upgraded iMac?

Thank you for getting back to me.
I tried what you said. I moved my old address book file into my new hard drive but it still opens "empty".
When I look up my addresses in Spotlight it finds them and seems to recognize them at address book files but it doesn't want to open them. When I double click on them it opens address book but the not the file.
When I click on the file and look at "more info" on it, I can see the information is in there.
I don't want to loose all my contacts.
On a side note do you have any easy tips for backing up?
Thank you again,
Trent

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