Why wont my address book open ever since I made a smart group?

I was working on making a smart group and AB crashed. OK. I would LOVE to delete that smart group and move on with my life, but i cant even open AB. It doesn't respond. I called support and the person i talked to suggested to do a couple things but they didn't work. Another note, ever since this has happened, other things have gone awry-for instance spotlight doesn't work and the dock gets glitchy.
Ive already made a backup of the Address Book folder and done a handful of things to the file trying to change it. No luck.
I reinstalled AB. No luck.
Does anyone know how i can get this working again?

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
Not sure about all that you report, but try using the Finder to open Home/Library/Preferences, and locate the file named com.apple.AddressBook.plist and drag it to the Desktop. Try launching AB again after doing this.
Ernie

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