Leopard Address Book Issue: Importing contact from tab delimited just hangs

I have 500 or so contacts, in Excel (they came from ACT on a PC). I have a number of fields not in the standard card layout so I painstakingly added all the right fields, saved the excel file on my Macbook Pro 2.4GHZ (running Leopard 10.5.1) as a "Tab delimited" file, and went into Address Book.
I selected "Import" and assigned all the fields from A.B. to the correct columns from the TXT file.
I chose "ignore first card" since the top row of the file had column names.
As I scan through it using the right arrow I can see the layout is ok.
HOWEVER--when I click "OK", it just sits there--no import happens, no NOTHING happens. I also have no red dot at the upper left to close the window--just the green dot at the upper left to maximize the screen.
After a few clicks here and there the application just hangs.
This is so bizzare--my wife is going to kill me since now I can't print labels for our holiday cards (I am in big trouble).
Anyone have any ideas?

Address Book is most likely encountering an error parsing the file. You can find out if that is the case by opening /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and trying the import again. If you see error messages coming from Address Book, please paste them here.
As for how to fix it, there could be a few reasons why this is happening:
* different lines contain different numbers of fields
* lines include quotation marks or embedded return characters
I recommend searching http://www.versiontracker.com for "address book import". Perhaps a third-party application will be better suited to import your data into Address Book.

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