[SLE] Evolution Contact / Addressbook problems

Hi,

My default "Personal" address book has developed an interesting problem.
Don't know when this happened. I cannot edit, delete, or add any new
contacts to the address book. I get an error that says "Error adding
contact. Contact Not found". I have checked the messages file.... no
errors logged there. I have started in term. Nothing is logged. I have
tried strace... cannot find the errors (Plus WAY too much information is
returned).

I thought that this was a permissions problem so I backed up
the .evolution folder and did a chgrp and chown on the folder
recursively. No change. I deleted the folder, restarted evolution, and
noticed that it still managed to populate the address book though all
the email was naturally gone. No change in behavior. I closed the
program and restored the original .evolution file. Now here is where it
gets even more interesting....

I am able to create a new address book. I can copy the contacts over and
do as I will to them in the new book. I tried to use the "move contact"
option and it populates the new target address book but does not remove
the contacts from the original "personal" book. Additionally, the option
to simply delete the address book is disabled. Obviously since it still
contains contacts. (Though it would be nice to allow us to delete a
populated address book as long as there were another layer of
confirmation dialogs)

Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this. Google returns only
a couple of references to this issue and there did not seem to be a
solution. I can continue to work, but my obsessive-compulsive nature
gets to me in having the old book laying around.....

I would love to know where this data is being stored so I can simply
tweak the file or delete the folder in some other way, but searching for
modified files in the time I was doing this was not revealing...

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance...

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