David wrote:

I imported a outlook 2000 pst file into outlook 2003.

Why? There's no need and imorting from a PST causes problems.

Now there are
two contact lists. One is emypy and the other has the list I
imported. The empty contact list seems to be the deflaut. When I try
to pick a contact to send email the dialog box has no contacts.

Open the PST containing your old data with FileOpenOutlook Data File.
Open its Contacts folder, select the contents with CTRL-A, then click
Edit?Copy to Folder. Specify as the destination your default Contacts
folder. Do the same with the other folders, specifying the corresponding
default folders. When you're done, right-click the added PST and choose
Close.
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Brian Tillman