Outlook, Contacts and address books

After a new installation my contacts are gone. I still have them on my laptop
but have so far been unable to find out how to move them to my PC. The
problem: the details exist in my Outlook 'Contacts' folder but not in my
address book. I have 3 distribution list there and I would hate it if I had
to enter all addresses and names one by one. So I hope someone can help me
out here:
1.) how can I copy or export those distribution lists into an address book
(which as I understand must be a 'Personal Address Book' in order be later be
able and move it to the PC)?
2.) how do I copy them to a flash disk and then import them into both an
address book and the 'Contacts' folder on my PC?

Going through the Knowledge Base I read somewhere that Microsoft is
'encouraging' the users to use 'Contacts' in Outlook rather than address
books. Well, I'd like to 'encourage' Microsoft to leave that bloody to me,
hell .....

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:57:00 -0800
Wish I was diving <WishIwasdiving.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> After a new installation my contacts are gone. I still have them on
> my laptop but have so far been unable to find out how to move them to
> my PC. The problem: the details exist in my Outlook 'Contacts' folder
> but not in my address book. I have 3 distribution list there and I
> would hate it if I had to enter all addresses and names one by one.
> So I hope someone can help me out here:

You need to export to a pst file, and import into your target location.

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