Sharing Address Book with e-mail only accounts

Hello:
I have created two email only account and would like to share the primary address book with these accounts. I have added these accounts in sharing folders and sent the invite.
The main functionality I am looking for is access my contact information via the .mac interface with the email only accounts. I have created the new emails accounts based on the fact Tiger was going to allow the contacts to be shared across multiple accounts.
Can anyone help??
imac dome 2002 17in 1.25Gig   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Address Book sharing uses the iDisk to store the contact data. So I am fairly certain that this feature doesn't work with email-only accounts.

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