So in all my maintenance things, I was moving files to their own Yearly
Inbox.

Somewhere in the renaming OE hiccuped and I lost 2006. But I could see the
dbx file, which I copied. Now I try to make a new folder in OE, call it
inbox_temp, and then when I quit OE, I rename the copied file to
"inbox_temp.dbx" and the size is right, but OE always shows that folder.

any app out there that will recover a DBX file?

please? I HATE %^&*() microsoft when crap like this happens.