When you say repair, do you mean detect and repair? Have you tried running scanpst.exe against your Outlook data file?

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After furious head scratching, sylvia asked:

| Hello,
|
| Outlook 2003 has been working perfectly until today. All of a sudden
| will only start in safe mode. It comes up with outlook has
| encountered a problem - sorry for the inconvenience - do you want to
| start in safe mode and send an error report. This is the only way I
| can open outlook. I have done 3 repairs and 2 restore points but am
| still encountering the problem. I have not downloaded or installed
| anything.
| Any suggestions will be gratefully received.