Ken

I will definitely try your suggested code today and see the results.

For the notes case though - as I had mentioned above that I have a
case open with Microsoft - it has been boiled down to a bug. Below is
the exact MS response which I got yesterday:

mS Response:
I am working with the Dev team regarding the StickyNote close problem.
It appears to be an issue introduced by a backport we made in Outlook
2003 for a fix in Outlook 2007 regarding the Item_Close event. The
VSTO 2005 AddinLoader for Outlook 2003 is listening for the close
event on StickyNotes and canceling the close. I am awaiting some
research from the dev team and I will update you when I hear back from
them.

Thanks