Need to have 7 of our 8 users directed to the same contact book....is this possible without having to duplicate it on each of their accounts?

thanks

No, global and shared addressbooks are not available to BB users.
I had this issue before and discussed with BB engineers at a show.

Why not create a public folder in Outlook where u will add all those contacts and have your users sync with it!

b/c 4.0 does not allow that, yet (may not ever). 3.6 will. there is a thread in this subforum not too far down that describes the woes and "workarounds".