Newbie Questions about LDAP "Is that what I want?"

Hi all. I'm working with a non-profit group. There are 3 of us in different states in the USA, all using Leopard on high speed internet connections.
Our biggest challenge is maintaining a mailing list. Right now we have a Numbers document on an iDisk. If someone needs to update it, they go to the iDisk, download the file, make the edit, and upload the new file. Obviously you can see the potential problems here.
We were looking at something like a hosted Filemaker database, but then I realized:
"Don't we basically just want to share an Address Book?" The answer is yes.
So I started thinking about the easiest way we could do that. I learned (a little) about LDAP which seems to be just what we need.
I was hoping that our webhost company supported LDAP, but they don't and it doesn't sound like they will any time soon.
So I started looking around for LDAP on OS X and kept running into OS X Server.
Long story short, for about the same as 2 years of paying for a hosted Filemaker DB (not to mention buying the Filemaker software), it looks like we could buy a Mac Mini (2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo w/ 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drive) and a 10-client version of OS X Server.
Before I go ahead and recommend this, I'd like someone to sanity check my ideas, since 12 hours ago I didn't really know anything about any of this
1) Will OS X Server run acceptably on the Mac Mini (realizing we aren't going to be punishing the thing, but mostly calendar and address books)?
2) Is LDAP what I'm looking for or is there another better solution?
3) Am I missing anything else?
TjL
who would definitely wait until the other side of Macworld Expo before buying, just in case

The solution was to share my address book with other the other folks who are .Mac subscribers.
This meant not having to use LDAP/Mac OS X Server at all.
Much cheaper solution.

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