Sharing address book contacts

Hello
We run a small network (less than 10 users) and run mail, file & user services off Mac OS X Server 10.4.x. I will probably upgrade to Leopard Server when available.
I need to find a way of sharing address book information amongst our users. This does not mean contact information for users, it means contact information for customers, suppliers, etc.
You would think that this is simple, and perhaps it is, but I cannot find a way of doing it.
I see that in Leopard Server we will have shared calendars, but still no sign of shared address books, that I can see.
I have tried various syncing tools with mixed success. The most promising looked to be Sync Together from Mark/Space but it will not run on Mac OS X Server (at least not unless you leave it logged in as some user).
I looked at Now-up-to-date/Contact but this is often reported as flaky - though I understand they have a new sharing product due some time soon.
Am I missing something? Is there a way of using LDAP server to distribute contact info? The data must be read/write ie capable of being edited in Address Book.
Thanks for any help
Regards
James

SugarCRM or most any other Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package can potentially provide what you want here, though such — even an open-source package — might be viewed as overkill. Few of these are tied into Mail and its address book; you're operating in the CRM environment.
Leopard Server offers [Directory|http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/directory.html], which might well be what you seek. Stick your customers in the directory, in their own groupings. (Assuming Directory offers a hierarchical organization, you could have Customers -> Company -> Contacts, for instance.)
The Directory feature certainly appears to be the next round of the LDAP and Open Directory support in the existing Tiger Server environment. Conceivably, you could load your data into the existing LDAP Open Directory environment, but that might not be (isn't) optimal.
A slightly more involved approach would be to use an RSS feed for your contact info and contact updates, and create and one of the Data Detector action routines that Leopard Mail offers; basically rolling your own distribution system. Load your contacts via RSS, and whenever you connect to your network, the Mail RSS feed and a custom Data Detector could be used to synchronize your address book with the RSS feed.
But yes, Leopard Directory looks to be the best way for now, based on what's been published.

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