Well, since my laptop had issues that could only be resolved by resetting
it, I tried setting up Outlook 2003 first instead of Earthlink's proprietary
Total Access Software. And I can now use Outlook. Apparently the issue was a
conflict between the 2.
Thank you to those who answered, sorry if my typos in the message below made
you think I had mistyped and caused my own problem.

Roberta

"Roberta Johnson" wrote in message
nk.net...
Has anyone ever figured out this problem?
"Task 'pop.earthlinl.net - Sending' reported error (0x800401F): "The
operation failed. An object could not be found.'"
I have tried all the instructions from both Earthlink and Mircosoft many
time without success.

TIA-Hopefully-

Roberta Johnson