If the other suggestions don't work, then delete this key in the registry
which will reset OE.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities

See if that works. If it does, then see here to recovery your messages:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

steve


"Psyberwolf" wrote in message
...
I tried both suggestions you offered Bruce, but unfortunately I keep
getting
the same errors everytime I start OE.

Psyberwolf



"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

And from:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store. Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder.
You
will lose your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news
servers, but it might get you into OE. Note: The DBX file are hidden
files
in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K03.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder
as
Folders.dbx. You should now get into OE. Try importing the messages from
the
folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use one of these
tools to extract the messages:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a
folder
in an open instance of OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~