Steve,

OE opens fine (except for the address book) and emails flow into the inbox.
You just can't create a new email or reply/forward existing ones. I'll try
your suggestion though when I get home. Is it a specific folder named
folders.dbx or is it all of them?

Craig

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Try deleting folders.dbx (hidden)

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#7

steve

"cbcrocker" wrote in message
...
I'm running XP Media Center 2005 and was trying to resolve an issue with
my
son's "Identity". I created a new identity for him and was deleteing
contacts
from the contact list one at a time when it went blank and started giving
me
the above message closely followed by one that told me that OE6 wasn't
configured properly and to reinstall it. I tried various "cures" found
within
the MS site (and others) with no luck. As a last ditch effort before
migrating to Outlook 2003 I upgraded to IE7 with no luck again. In fact,
when
I now click on an email I get the following "There was an erroropening
this
message. An error has occured." which is another of MS's useless messages.
Any ideas? At this point I'm pretty desperate.