Help me import my Address Book

Hey, so I backed up my AB as an AB archive before doing a clean install if SL. Now when I try to restore from it, 1 of 2 things happens:

• It freezes and I have to force quit. It won't open again until I log out, and then it imported multiple copies of all my groups and none of the contacts.
• It imports all my groups but none of my contacts.

By the way, I tried to post this 4 times from Safari, but every time I typed 1 character in the title, it froze up on me, so I'm posting from my iPod. Why did everyone keep saying SL was so stable? So far it's been unusable for me!

 

OK so if anyone else has this problem (or at least the second issue) just Spotlight any of your contacts without AB open, it should find them and it should open up with all your contacts showing. Not having the Safari bugs any more either.