Diane thank u so much, creating a new profile seems to have resolved it. I
have sent a few mails to my POP server, Outlook has dled those mails to my hd
and left a copy of those same mails on the POP server. Result!

My only question now is , is there an easy way of getting the emails that
have been dled to my hd (nearly a thousand in total when Outlook
automatically configured the initial mail profile), and deleted from the POP3
server back onto that server. Because as it stands i cant view these mails
from anywhere but my home pc. Is there some way of mass forwarding them back
to the server. When i select all and click the forward button in Outlook, it
appears to look like it is sending 1 mail with 1000 attachments..when i want
a separate mail for each mail back on the server. Hope this makes sense? Can
you advise?