Squished Name Column upon opening of Address Book since upgrading to Snow L

Howdy,
I guess I am an early adopter, and since upgrading to Snow Leopard, I have noticed a vexing problem with my Address Book application upon launch. Every time I open Address Book, I have to manually expand the Names Column as it has reverted to a very squished appearance since the last time that I opened and used the application (and also manually adjusted the Names column as well....)
Has anyone else run into this problem? If so were you able to resolve it and how were you able to do so?
TIA for any and all assistance!
Regards from California in the USA,
Steve O'Sullivan

HI,
When iChat 3 came out someone tested whether it would work on the platform that was running iChat 2 and also tested whether iChat 2 would work on the later OS.
This eventually led to the Reinstall procedure for iChat 3 up to the iChat 5 version.
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