bgillies wrote:

One additional piece of info. When i tried to rename the Outlook.ost
file to see if that would help, it said it was in use by another
program, yet not other program was running.

Did you look at the Processes tab of Task Manager to make sure? Do you have
a PDA cradled? Do you have any desktop searches like Google Desktop Search
or Windows Desktop Search running?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]