Possible to Retrieve AddressBook after Kernal Panic

My husband's G4 PowerBook has been experiencing occasional kernal panics (will leave that to another discussion area). Two days ago he discovered all of his AddressBook entries are missing when he synced his iPhone. He doesn't remember the last time he opened AddressBook from his laptop itself.
Couple of questions - is there a way to restore his AddressBook contents? Tried to restore from a backup, but only gained 6 entries (out of 100 or so).
I would like to restore the AddressBook before I tackle the kernal panic issue. Although he's just itching for me to crash his old 15" Powerbook so he has an excuse to go to the Apple Store for a shiny new 27" iMac.

Tried that, didn't help much, a few more contacts appeared. Problem is, have no idea when they actually disappeared.
I do believe they're gone now.
It may be possible to recover some erased ones, but you must quit using the Computer immediately, because the OS will think it can write to those freed blocks on the disk.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
If not going that route then...
I'd do AJ first, then DW.

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