Imac Facetime contacts

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Last night I launched the facetime app to use it. The app is not reading the OS X Address Book (Contacts) - the list is empty.
Prior to the mountain lion upgrade (since I first got the mac over a year ago) I did move the address book from 'userhome/library/Application Support' to a shared folder, to which all the users on the mac have read/write permission. Additionally I created a sym link from each user's 'userhome/library/Application Support' folder to this share folder.
Outside the facetime app, all the users can see the Contacts just fine. Additionally all the users can sycn their individual iPhone with Contacts just fine.
Any advice would be appreicated.

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