Resetting Address Book's template

Hi, is there any way to restore the template file in Address Book to its original configuration? My pop up list of fields has become out of control with fields I'd like to permanetly detele.
Thanks.

As Eric said it's all here:
Haven't messed around with mine much so that might be the default setting
Regards,
Colin R.

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If you wish to delete the entire Calendar (or Address Book) database on your BlackBerry, follow the directions below. Make certain you have a good copy of your Calendar or Contacts elsewhere, as this procedure will complete delete ALL Calendar entries and/or Address Book entries on your BlackBerry.
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(Hi! I first posted this query in the Leopard>Mail and Address Book Discussions, but there's been no response there, so I thought that there might be a greater chance of a response from those with Tiger experience and expertise..)
I've spent three-quarters-of-an-hour searching through previous posts to see if this has appeared as a problem before, but can't find any mention here in Leopard nor Tiger Discussions..
I'm asking on behalf of my beloved, who's tearing her hair..
She's created an Address Book Template (Address Book>Preferences>Template) and has successfully imported records from Filemaker (by using 'Address Book Importer').
HOWEVER, although she's created (or renamed) fields in the Address Book template, such as
home page
birthday
last changed
Data in/change
C1
C2
work done
practitioner
etcetera (..those C1 and C2 are Comment fields..) nevertheless when data's been imported (and it does all import OK!) some of the fields shown in her Address Book cards are displayed in a different order.. e.g;
home page
birthday
last changed
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C1
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flat
C2
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This doesn't seem to be based on some peculiar alphabetical or alphanumeric sorting of the fields or the data within them, and when all fields have data in them then that re-ordering is consistent ..e.g; C2 is always separated from C1 by having 'work done', 'Admin info', 'category' and 'flat' between them. ("Flat" is an address field; in the UK "flat" means "apartment".)
We don't seem to be able to find any re-ordering facility which would bring back the display into the same order as the template.
Is there such a facility to re-order the display, apart from re-ordering the template on a kind of hit-&-miss basis until it sticks properly in the cards display? ..And has anyone else come across - and solved? - this problem of fields being arbitrarily(?) re-ordered in the display?
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I've got iPhone 4 iOs 5.0.1, Mac OS 10.5.8 and Address 4.1.2 and I have 2 problems;
1) Whenever I try to rearrange the fields of one my contacts in the Address Book, I can do so during "Edit card" mode. As soon as I hit "Save", everything is back to square one.
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On any given syncing session, for each contact, either all the fields within all categories will be in a totally different order, or some of the categories and their fields will be intact while one or two will be randomized. For example the order for my phone numbers might be randomized as work, home, mobile, NOT as I indicated above.
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Barney-15E: Thanks for your previous reply!
Would you check this work-around for me? I think I found a way to compose a master list of custom labels and have them available for multiple cards (new and old) in Address Book on a MacBookPro and in the Contacts directory on an iPhone. I have tried compiling a master list of custom labels using Address Book Preferences/Template and I find there's a limit to the number of custom labels I can add as a label for each field.
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Tell me that I am wrong, and then tell me how to delete or edit a custom field name. Thanks!!

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