!!! isync just wiped out my address book!!!

I was working on my address book and suddenly it was completely deleted except for my email address and the Apple computer. I went online to find the my .mac address book and I found it was also empty. I went to my office computer to restore the .mac account with iSync. After some time iSync asked me if I wanted to delete all 788 files on my computer! But it did want to add those two files! I declined of course. What is strange is that it should have added all those 788 files back to .mac. What gives? Any clues!!!
Grant
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Ok, I found a clue at Message « Refreshing contact groups and calendar information... » in the forum and finally resolved the problem. See the thread for the solution. The clue was to "reset sync data". See details for how to do this and how to deal with the "grayed out" button.

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