Transition from Palm to Address Book

Hi....I'm a new Mac user -- finally made the switch from the PC world. I've migrating all my contacts from my old Palm desktop app to the Address book. In the process, all the "groups" were lost, and many of the Notes didn't translate well. Can anybody give me suggestions about how to clean up (re-transfer?) the info, short of typing some of the data all over again??
1) Does Address book have custom-defined fields, into which the User Fields in Palm can be converted?
2) Is there any way to convert the groups that each address card is already assigned to, or do I have to do that all over again?
3) The Palm could only have a card in 1 group at a time, but Address Book looks like a card can be in multiple groups. Is there any way to "see" which group(s) a Card is in?
Thanks......

You can add some fields that have not been included in the default template. Select Add Field from the Card menu. Any fields not grayed out can be added to the existing template. If you select the Edit Template you can make minor changes. However, there is no direct field for field assignment. You can export your Palm data to a text file and then edit the text file to remove fields that will not have a corresponding field in AB. You may also be able to select which fields to export from Palm, but it's been so long I don't recall if that option is present.
Notes and the like may be difficult to assign because AB only has one Note field. In the end you may find you will have to do some individual editing to get things the way you want within AB's limitations. However, I've used a lot of similar programs over the years and done a lot of data import/export and nothing I've ever used made the transition easy.
If you're inclined you might try third-party software:
AB Transfer ( VersionTracker or MacUpdate.)

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