Kelly Armitage wrote:

I also
exported the address book from within Outlook -- file /
import/export...

Outlook has no address book. It uses the Contacts folder to store contact
data. And exporting is never the properway to transfer data between Outlook
instances.

and created a .CSV file and tranfered that to the
new PC. I then installed Office/Outlook on the new pc, switched PST
files and imported the .CSV. When I access "contacts" on the left
side by "Mail" and "Calender" etc, all of the contacts are there that
I imported from the .CSV. The problem is when I compose a new email
and hit the "To:" button, I get an error "The address list could not
be displayed. The contacts list associated with this folder could not
be opened..... "

You've damaged your installation. See this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319901/en-us
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Brian Tillman