phil wrote:

Brian - thanks for your help - that's clear enough - pity MS couldn't
have provided something as moving between machines is a common enough
issue.

Office 2003 provided just such a tool, called the Save My Settings Wizard.
One post in one of the OUtlook newsgroups indicates that yuou can install
that wizard from an Office 2003 installation kit and it will work for
Outlook 2007. It makes sense to me that it would, since the registry
entries and files it copies should be similar for the two Office versions.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]