The issue may not be your PRF file but how you're deploying it. For a silent application, you need to use the ImportPRF registry key, as the white paper describes.

You also didn't show us whether you actually have any email accounts in your PRF.

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"John" wrote in message ...
I am trying to deploy a custom PRF for Outlook 2003. The import works fine
but intitates the startup wizard as if I were a new user instead of modifying
the existing profile when I manually import the profile by double clicking on
it; or import it via a logon script.

I have read the Customizing a PRF whitepaper and lots of research but cannot
see what is wrong. Below is the first part of the prf file. Hopefully
someone could see what is wrong.

***************************************

;Automatically generated PRF file from the Microsoft Office Customization
and Installation Wizard

; ************************************************** ************
; Section 1 - Profile Defaults
; ************************************************** ************

[General]
Custom=1
BackupProfile=No
DefaultProfile=Yes
OverwriteProfile=Append
ModifyDefaultProfileIfPresent=TRUE

; ************************************************** ************
; Section 2 - Services in Profile
; ************************************************** ************

[Service List]
;ServiceX=Microsoft Outlook Client
ServiceEGS=Exchange Global Section
ServiceX=Microsoft Outlook Client

;************************************************* **************
; Section 3 - List of internet accounts