I did a very, very horrible thing...

...and my Address Book has suffered the consequences -- unless anyone out there can help me. I am at a complete loss.
I hadn't backed up in a good while. My HD crashed in a major way. Needed to clean install. Ran out and bought an external drive at the Apple Store. I thought I successfully moved the contents of my old HD to the external for safe keeping. A long, tedious process -- after three days of copying, then a clean install to the HD, reinstalled my programs to the now repaired HD...and I finally began to move documents from the external to the repaired HD.
Yes, I learned my lesson.
However...the clean install obviously erased my address book. My question (sorry to take so long to get to it) is --- are the contents of my old address book somewhere on this external drive. I do not know what the data would be called.
If anyone has any thoughts, help or advice, I would be eternally grateful...you will be forever in my prayers...because -- I have created a horrible problem for my job/career/life with no address book. Help?! Please.
G4 DeskTop Mac OS X (10.4.7)

If you use an iPod and use the Contacts feature then you should be able to find all the information sitting on the iPod (in disk mode)… unless you've synchronised the iPod to the new, empty Address Book!
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