I've been experimenting with:

http://www.briandunning.com/cf/194

...and fail to see how the required single ' in osascript'ing gets into the CF. There must be something perverted by my webbrowser??

When we're at it ...is it worth trying to audit track to get every change in a field mirrored into the Address Book this way. It feels like feeding a dinosaur when usually dealing with relational approaches??

Anyway the client is so in love with the Address Book ...I would try do something similar the opposite direction by monitoring changes to the file behind the Address Book, since you apparently can single out modified records via applescript.

--sd

Alright I have today learned that the Address Book, have LDAP subscription mentioned in it's setup. Further have I seen that - Scodigo claims that their new Smart-Pill does:

Read and write to Active or Open Directory with LDAP functions

What's in it??

--sd