OS X Mountain Lion :: Contacts Not Appearing In Mail Address Panel

If I am in Mail on my MacBook the mail program knows nothing about any addresses in my contact list.

The Address Panel and Previous Contacts lists are empty. 

If I open my contacts list - I see all my contacts properly.

They also sync properly between my phone and macbook.  I can add a contact to my pone and a second or two later it appears on my MB; and I can add a contact to my MB and seconds later it appears on my phone.

Here is when I believe the problem started.

I wanted all my mail and contacts to be in my 'documents' folder so I could sync that folder, and only that folder, between multiple places and machines and also backup everything in one fell swoop.

a) I moved the mail and the application support/addressbook folders from my library to my docs folder.
b) In the terminal created hard links in the original places pointing to the new.  I was careful to make hard links not soft.

From the finder and from the terminal the links are all working fine works fine.  And as I mentioned the sync function to my phone finds the moved files and works great.  Mail work fine. I can create new accounts etc so mail preferences work fine. I also did this with my messages and dropbox and they are working fine.

I am running 10.8.2 build 12C60 and Mail 6.2 (1499)  on a MB Pro 15" Early'08  2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Could Mail have a relative address or very low level address to the addressbook built into it? 

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 1TB-hdd, Verizon Router & FIOS ONT