When you say that you "deleted the whole thing".... what did you delete? Did
you remove the Contacts folder somehow? If so, you might need to do a
/resetfolders as described he
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182112/en-us

"jim Sebring" wrote in message
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my contacts became corrupted with about 45k of blank contacts.
i got frustrated with it and deleted the whole thing now i can't get
anything to work in the contacts, including being able to access my
contacts
from winword