Lion Address Book not functioning properly

I am finding OSX Lion Address Book very frustrating.
The search feature sometimes works, sometimes does not.
Even when it finds and highlights the searched contact, that contact's information does not show up.
I have bookmarked one contact and that is the only contact that shows up unless I double-click the contact in the list, then it opens in a separate window.
This is so very inconvenient.
What am I doing wrong?
How does one properly use the Address Book to make it smooth-sailing?
Thanks
Nancy

I'm glad you got your problem solved. Mine was a different solution as shown below.
Thanks for updating.
This solved my question by Barney-15E on Jul 29, 2011 3:20 PM
Give this a shot.
If you are syncing your contacts with something, disable that for now.
Archive your Address book by going to File menu, Export, Address book Archive.
Close Address Book.
Go to the Finder and while holding down the Option key, select Library from the Go menu.
Navigate into Application Support/AddressBook.
Delete addressbook.abcddb.
Open Address Book and see how it works
Turn Syncing back on if applicable.
The file you deleted is a database that indexes the raw data to make display, search, etc faster. However, it does seem to get corrupted with updates.
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