D wrote:

I realize this post is a few months old however I just felt the need
to answer the last question since no one else did.

You can have the default in the address book be a shared(public
folder) contact list.

No, you can't. All you're deacribing is how to tell the Address Book which
Contacts folder to search first when resolving an address. You are not
changing the default contacts folder.
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Brian Tillman