I understand the situation now, thanks. It looks like the post from kenlyle below gives us what we need for a stop-gap import of our CB contacts.

Now, since I'm not an SQL person at all yet... could someone give a poor beginner who is very enthusiastic about Joomla but not a true techie a clue how to go about applying that query?

Thanks!!

Excellent! This helps a TON. I just learned something

Thanks man.

Thanks, Beat, for the clarification, and the other posters...this thread is a good example of how Community is supposed to operate, I think.

The folks who found my post useful can consider giving my karma a bump

Thanks!
K

Did you ever get anywhere with this.
Seems to me if you have additional fields in the profiles covering addresses etc why do you need cb_contacts. Seems to be a doubling up of data. I had installed CB_contacts but then uninstalled it as I saw no point to it.