Import address book data from Metadata cache files?

Hi,
A friend of mine has a PM Cube and the hard drive got some bad sectors. I believe he still had 10.4.8 on it. I was able to pull off most of the data from the bad drive but I have no addressbook.data file. I do have all the cache files in the Metadata folder, is there any way to import these files? The new drive I installed now has 10.4.9 on it.
Thanks for your help!
Sawtooth G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Sawtooth G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

ok, try the following:
quit ab in leopard
select that address book folder in your old tiger home directory, then bring it to your leopard homefolder in the same location, i.e. homefolder/library/application support/address book
then in that newly moved ab folder locate the following two items and remove them: Metadata folder and AddressBook-v22.abcddb file
then launch ab in leopard and see if that solves your issue
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