Restoring address book entries from Time Machine

My wife managed to merge our address books via mobile me (not sure how-neither is she!!).  Anyway I went in and deleted all her contacts from my address book on my mac, synced and I was all set.  Problem is she says (not sure if this is accurate) that the contacts in question disappeared from her phone (which would make sense for my account on her phone but they should still show up on her account).
Anyway I have been trying to use time machine to restore the individual entires but I don't want to simply restore the whole address book.  I tried restoring the user/library/application data/address book/metadata file to my desktop and then importing the individual cards into my address book in a specific group for her and once I did that step 2 was going to be to figure out how to get those back into her mobile me account.  Problem is step 1 is not working-when I try to drag the individual card files from the metadata folder Address Book says they are not vaild cards (i.e. contain no data).
Can anybody steer me in the right direction for at least step 1 (and 2 if possible)?

Nothing???

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