Sync with Google missing in Address Book

Hi there,
My friend purchased Android phone and wants to sync it with iMac Address Book. Procedure is to sync it with GMail account and then it automatically syncs it with a phone.
Sync utility in Address Book is found under PREFERENCES > SYNC WITH GOOGLE. However it is not there! It is there on my 3 iMacs and laptop but it is not there in his iMac. We run update and it picked up Java and some other update but still no that utility. OS X is version 10.5.8 and as I said is all up to date.
How to get that utility so it exists in Address Book?
Thank you,
Zack

I think yes, probably using pacifist to extract address book from the original disc, then you'd need to update it.
I haven't tried this so maybe another contributor can help with the procedure.

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