kmail and kaddress-book keeps crashing....

[Elton Woo]

Until a few hours ago, I was able to send and receiv mail with kmail.  
Just a
few minutes ago, I turned on the machine, and now, kmail consistently
crashes if:
1) I try to add an address from the address book in the "To:" field.
2) If I copy an address, and try to send the message (like this one)
3) If I open kaddressbook _by itself_, that too will CONSISTENELY
crash. ... with this result:

(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...
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(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1084755808 (LWP 7247)]
(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
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(no debugging symbols found)...0x00a20c32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 ()
   from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x00a20c32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0x00ca8963 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x005f2c82 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x074c7889 in KABC::Picture::Picture() () from /usr/lib/libkabc.so.1
#5  0x074ee216 in KABC::Addressee::AddresseeData::AddresseeData() ()
   from /usr/lib/libkabc.so.1
#6  0xd8074ae9 in ?? ()
#7  0xa008fb32 in ?? ()
#8  0xdd079155 in ?? ()
#9  0xa9000002 in ?? ()
#10 0x1807841d in ?? ()
#11 0xc8074839 in ?? ()
#12 0xc8079150 in ?? ()
#13 0xc808fb2d in ?? ()
#14 0x2808fb32 in ?? ()
#15 0x30bfea1f in ?? ()
#16 0x5400a2c3 in ?? ()
#17 0xc8006967 in ?? ()
#18 0xc8079150 in ?? ()
#19 0xc808fb2d in ?? ()
#20 0x2808fb32 in ?? ()
#21 0x8cbfea1f in ?? ()
#22 0xd0078a1c in ?? ()
#23 0x3008fb32 in ?? ()
#24 0x2800a2c3 in ?? ()
#25 0x8c006967 in ?? ()
#26 0x90074f61 in ?? ()
#27 0xc808fb32 in ?? ()
#28 0x5808fb2d in ?? ()
#29 0x40bfea1f in ?? ()
#30 0xc8074ac7 in ?? ()
#31 0x0008fb2d in ?? ()

I'm totally at a loss to explain this new and unusual
behavoir on the part of kmail  and / or  the addressbook.

(I'm posting this from mozilla-mail ...)

Elton