ICal won't send meeting invitations; can't recognize My card

Hello,
I have searched for this issue, and found a related article, but the fix didn't work for me. Here's the other article:
iCal unable to send the invitation; needs address card...
So when I try to send a meeting invitation using iCal, as soon as I type someone's email address, a message pops up:
"Calendar will be unable to send the invitation. - To be able to send invitations, you need to add your email address to your card in Contacts. '(null)' is not a valid email address"
I have tried creating a new card, restarted the system, reverted back to another card, but nothing works. I can no longer send meeting invitations. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Faisal

After speaking with Apple tech support, this turned out to be a contacts corruption issue. If i recall correctly, I did the following:
- Exported all contacts using the *Export vCard option"
- Exported all contacts again using the "Contacts Archive" option
- Closed mail, contacts, calendar, rebooted the system
- Opened Library/Preferences folder and deleted all instances of com.apple.addressbook*
- Removed google account completely
- There were a couple of other files that I was asked to delete. Sorry but I can't remember at this time
- Rebooted the mac
- Created a new entry for my card, and made it my own card.
- Opened calendar, and added a new event; sent the event to a test email
- Opened contacts. Imported all contacts using the vCard option
- Re-added Google account
- Back to normal.
Hope this helps others.

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