Sunset wrote:

A very impressive thing happened. After all the sofware was removed
and Micosoft Office 2003 Professional was re-installed, my personal
configuration data came up in the new Office install. And it
worked! Very impressive!

That's because the mail profile that contains your account information and
references to your folders is in the Windows Registry and is not affected by
uninstalling or installing Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman