Launch Address Book from Apple Mail

Has anyone come across a means by which to add a shortcut to address book to the Mailboxes navigation panel on the left side of the screen?
I have tried googling without success. I've searched the forum without success. It maybe that I've used the wrong search terms (wouldn't be the first time.)
Anyway, I tried dragging the address book from the dock into the nav panel with no success.
Also, yes, I'm aware of the toolbar link to "Address". Thanks in advance to anyone who points that out. I am talking about launching and bringing up the actual Address Book application.
Cheers!
JB

proofrock wrote:
V.K.,
1. The address book button doesn't launch the address book. It launches a pseudo address book (PAB). When I double click on an entry in the PAB, instead of seeing the entire entry I end up with a new email addressed to the entry. I'm not sure I can even get to the actual Address Book entry from the PAB!
So, from a user-interface prespective, you've got two different applications with virtually the same name, "Address Book" and "Address". The apps have different actions when you do the same thing. I find that irksome to say the least.
2. Why can't I customize the Nav bar regardless of how other people use it?
that's something of a loaded question. I'm not privy to apple design decision but they have to walk a fine line between allowing too much stabilizability or too little. allowing too much of it may result in unwieldy and very hard to navigate interface, lead to bugs, software conflicts etc. allow too little and people complain. in this case the right thing to do IMO would be to fix the addresses button in Mail. quite a few functions in it were broken in Snow Leopard compared to previous versions of Mail.
also, Snow leopard does provide a much higher degree of stabilizability than previous OS X versions via services. as i said, you can make a service available in mail that will launch Address Book. you can also bind a shortcut to it.
I appreciate your presence and knowledge based on 20,664, soon to be "5" posts so I assume you're either a direct employee and or consultant who works with Apple on a daily basis.
no, I'm neither actually.
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