Unable to import old AB files- SL

Hello,
Just upgraded to SL from Tiger. Did a full backup (not with Time Machine as it wasn't included with Tiger) onto an external drive. ( I used SuperDuper if that helps any)
I can see all my old AB files on the backup drive (looked in my home Library/app supp/addbk and also found the Metadata folder in /Caches)
When I tried to import my old data into SL, all my old AB files are greyed out and I can't select them or any folder associated with them in order to import them into Snow Leopard.
Things I've tried: I took the entire Address Book folder from my backup and used it to replace my Snow Leopard folder of the same name and location. No good. No errors either, just ignores the data.
Help?

Woot!
Seems that the drive has a quirk in that it needs to be triggered during startup to boot.
I had used the "option key" to select the drive which didn't work. When I went into "System Preferences" and "Startup Disk", selecting the backup and rebooting it worked!
Sigh. It's illogical quirks like this that drove me to Mac's in the first place -Windoze is rife with them!
Oh well, this is the first real quirk I've run into, guess I shouldn't complain.
Thanks for all the help!

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