Retrieving contacts from an ipod or Earthlink address book

My hard drive melted down and I mistakenly thought I had backed some things I actually hadn't. How is it possible to retrieve my contacts from my 80G ipod? From my Earthlink address book?

Thanks for the reply Julian, but I tried that and the only cards that show up in that "contacts" folder are the ones that come with the iPod: ipodcreatedsample.vcf and 2 others.
I brought this to the genius bar at my local Apple store, and they couldn't figure out how to do it, so this one is definitely a challenge. The genius bar advice was: "try to find a solution online." Aaack.

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