One Computer, Two Users, One Address Book

This question came up in the dim and distant past without a solution and I was wondering if there was one to it in the here and now.
My wife and I share 1 MacBookPro
We each have a user account.
I have a full .Mac account
She has a .Mac Email Account
We would like to have only one address book or at least have the same info in each of our respective address books. (not too big a request?)
I just can't find out how to do this other than her having a full .Mac account too which is just plain expensive overkill just to sync two address books!
Is there a way to do this please?
MBP 17", 800Mhz G4 Quicksilver (server)   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

It can certainly be done. If you are sharing one computer, then with the right permissions and linking, you can use the same address book.
All the Address Book information is in a folder Library/Application Support/AddressBook in a user's home directory.
If you make an alias of all the files in that folder from your directory and put them in the same folder in your wife's home directory, and then ensure that both you and your wife have access to read and write all of those files, it should work.
As a result when either of you is using Address Book, you would be using the same files and the same data. Each will see the updates of the other.
If the permissions are not right, AddressBook will hang, and you have to force quit, but otherwise, it seems to work OK.
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