Import from older ibook to imac

I had a ibook and saved my address book to a usb drive and when I got my new iMac I am unable to import the addresses. I could not use firewire because the computers did not overlap. They are for work and I switched jobs. Is there anyway to get my old address book to import into the one on my imac?
I got the ibook in Dec 2006 and I just got the imac in Aug 2008.

sounds like you transfered the Adress Book application itself. that's an entirely wrong thing to save. the application itself contains no user data and would be useless to save. user data is stored in user-homedirectory/library/application support/address book. you should have saved that.

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fwheby
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