Recovering address book data without erasing new one

Dear all,
I have a PowerBook G4 that I use while traveling and a dual G5 at my desk. I've recently upgraded to 10.5 erasing all data on my computers, but not without backing it up. Now I want to recover some contacts that I had in my G4, adding it to my G5, without erasing the data I currently have.
I have found the old AddressBook.data of my PB (created with 10.4.10), but cannot find any way to retrieve the data I'm looking for. Can anyone help me?
Pierre

have you tried to go to address book>file>import and import either an address book archive or v cards?
hope this helps

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