Restoring a 10.3 address book to 10.5

My old imac which was running 10.3 died. I had a full backup of everything, and I now have a new imac running 10.5. When I restore the files for the address book, the 10.5 address book doesn't read the old address book - 10.3 had a file called addressbook.data, 10.5 seems to have a file called AddressBook-v22.abcddb which is the only file in the library/application support/address book directory that changes. Any hints on how to get my addresses back?
Thanks!

Hi Tom, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Looks like you got lost in the shuffle...
Have you tried importing them?
-mj

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