I am looking for an address book/contact mgmt app that stands alone--does not suck contacts from email or face book or the iPad Contacts app.

You could use Bento. It has basic import and export of .cvs files via mail. If you own a Mac, it can be more fully synced with the OS X version.

It can suck contacts from Contacts, but does not have to. Up to you. And you can set up as many independent contact databases as you want.

It's actually a general database app, but has a good address book template; and you can tweak it almost any old way. You can also passcode lock each database individually.

Still, that may be overkill for what you want.

Another product that I find intriguing, but have no excuse to use is Evernote Hello. That might be worth your time to look at, especially if you are already an Evernote user.

And that's all I've got.

Thanks. Will check out both of those.

No problem. Whatever you end up using, please let us know what you end up with and how you like it.