I more or less sorted things out with a lot of manual edits. Only problem is
that when Outlook synchronized with Hotmail, most of the messages only
contained times for received field but not dates. This is on the Hotmail
site; Outlook is OK. But that is probably another forum.

"JDV" wrote:

In order to transfer Outlook to new PC (both Office 2003; WinXP Pro) I made
the mistake of trying to import Outlook data into the new machine. My mail
is tied to an Exchange server and I use a local cache. I also have a Hotmail
account in Outlook and a Personal Folder for an archive. All are messed up
at this point with duplicates and missing data (the result of the initial
import I suspect). I've tried to fix by copying pst and ost files without
success. Seems like the easiest thing at this point would be to start over.
Please advise.