I know this is a lot of work, but try a third identity and manually enter
the account settings. If you are successful, you can delete the old
Identities in Regedit as well as File | Identities | Manage Identities.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"lew" wrote in message
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Thanks, Bruce. I'm even worse of than before. Now that I've followed
the backup/clone procedure, the corrupted key(s) is being exported to the
new identities when I create them.
Can oe be thoroughly uninstalled and reinstalled? ie, totally clean out
the registry of all related keys?
-Lew