Try reinstalling Address Book from your original Panther disk with Pacifist and then run the updater. Erick___________________________________ "We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers." On Apr 19, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > At 09:55 +0100 19/4/04, Tarik Bilgin wrote: >> On 17 Apr 2004, at 17:47, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote: >> >>> At 10:57 -0400 17/4/04, John Griffin wrote: >>>> Sounds like you need to trash the Address Book Preferences, or at >>>> least >>>> check them out with a Utility like Preferential Treatment. >>> >>> John - I wrote in my posting: >>> >>> Now I have deleted the PLIST files: com.apple.AddressBook.plist >>> AddressBookMe.plist >>> >>> Are there any other Preferences to Trash ?? >>> >> >> not as far as I know.... >> >> I'm stumped :) > > Tarik - yes, so am I ! > > I have reinstalled it using Pacifist from the 10.3.3 update, and it > will not even launch. > I have done everything we normally do. > > What could be a next step to get my address book back??? > > Trevor