Lost all my Address Book Contacts and now can't locate Backup

Strange, well today- now all my contacts dissappear for no reason...
only shows 3 newest one.... What happen to the other 200 names that I had.
I know I use Backup3 to my iDisk everyday, so I try to restore from a few days back and now it says "Can't Locate backup", gives me 3 choices to do "Locate",
"Skip this Part" or Stop Restore. Nothing works for me.
I even change the AddressBook.data.beforesave to AddressBook.data, now it shows most of the contacts, but still lost about 20 names...
Dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

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