Why search doesn't work in address book ?

Hello, I'm new on this forum and have 3 questions about AddressBook:
I use AddressBook 6.1 on a imac 3.1Ghz i5, macos 10.7.3. I have more than 2'000 adresses on my icloud account
1) I use two accounts on Address Book: first is my own icloud account and second is my company's one, which is on an AppleServer.
When I type a name in the search field, nothing happens... ?
2) Is it possible to get the old appearance (as it was on macos10.6) of Address Book? I find this new look difficult to read.
3) Is it possible to get each account on AddressBook with a different color or sign, so that it would be possible to know visually which address is on which account and vice versa ?
Thanks

Jono,
Eliminate the possibility of a corrupt plist (preference) file. Quit Address Book, find the com.apple.AddressBook.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder, drag it to the Desktop, log out/in or restart and let us know what happens.
;~)

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