Import Address Book 4.0.6 into Address Book 4.1.2

My MacBookPro (purchased July 2007, don't know operating system) broke June 2009. Mac store put hard drive in an external case. I'm trying to import my contacts from the MacBookPro external hard drive Address Book 4.0.6 into my new imac desktop Mac OS X 10.5.8.
The new computer will not open the old Address Book at all. Can't read, can't export. The new Addresss Book 4.1.2 will not import or open the Old Addresss Book contacts. I've tried dragging too. I also tried to replace the new Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder with the old one from the external hard drive. Any ideas?

The new computer will not open the old Address Book at all. Can't read, can't export.
That's to be expected. Address Book 4.0.6 requires Mac OS X 10.4.x, so if you're not running that, you can't open it and export the contacts.
You need to install 10.4.x, open Address Book 4.0.6, export all the contacts as a single vCard file, then on a Mac with 10.5.8 installed, open Address Book 4.1.2, then drag & drop the vCard file onto the open Address Book window to import those contacts.

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VOL1000004                           ....953312
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HDR1A953312S 195331200000400010001       10040 100420000000
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HDR2F0200000100                                   00
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EOF2F0200000100                                   00
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