Brian just helped me with the same issue! Ends up that the below link nailed
my need. I had ordered from Dell and had installed Business Contact Manager!
The link not only solved my recurrence issue, but my latency issue as well!

Brian wrote:

Google Groups is your friend. See if this applies:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring/msg/ddca9538c85972b6
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Brian Tillman



"chris" wrote:

Hi All,

I have an Outlook scheduling issue. All new appointments/meetings
default to a recurrence pattern - Weekly, every week on the day that
the appointment/meeting is chosen with no end date (at whatever time
you've selected). When viewing the Recurrence dialog the 'Remove
Recurrence' button is grayed out; however, it is enabled when a change
is made, committed and the dialog reopened.

This is happening on all Outlook 2003 SP2 clients in the office.
Anyone know where this might be set up by default? or how to change
this behavior?

I thought i knew outlook but i'm confused! ;-)


Chris