Commander Redding wrote:

I recently installed MS Office 2000 on a newly purchased laptop
computer. I then exported my tasks, contacts, etc., from the
originating desktop to their own files. I then imported those files
into Outlook 2000 on the laptop.

Not the way to move data between Outlook instances. See
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
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Brian Tillman