rawtoast wrote:

Upon opening outlook, my computer randomly asked me to enter a new
user profile.

A new user profile in Windows will produce a different C:\Documents and
Settings subfolder tree that will be different from the one you used
previously. Were this to happen to me, I'd log in as Administrator and copy
the contents of the old WIndows user profile tree to the folder tree of the
new one.
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Brian Tillman