Larry S. wrote:

I am using Novastor Novabackup (v 7.3), which seems a pretty adequate
program. I moved the existing Outlook files from Documents and
Settings\LStone\local settings\applications\microsoft\outlook, and
then did a restore to original location from Novastor. This worked
just fine when I did it with folders from the My Documents directory.
The resulting restore brought back all of the message boxes and
stored emails, but not the account or message rules settings.

Correct. It also is a good way to corrupt your mail profile. You can't
just dump a PST into the default location and expect Outlook to configure
itself to use it properly.

Something else, which I hope you might have some idea of. Although my
contacts are all restored and up to date (synced with ActiveSync to
my Dell Axim PDA), my address book appears empty. I can get into any
of my contacts just fine, but don't know how to tell the address book
how to find the contacts. Any ideas on that one?

By performing the restore the way you did, you disrupted the connection
between the address book srevice and the Contacts folder of the PST. Remove
the Outlook Address Book service from the mail profile, stop and restart
Outlook, add the Outlook Address Book service back in, and again stop and
restart Outlook. Then right-click Contacts, choose Properties, select the
Outlook Address Book tab and select the box labeled "Show this folder as an
e-mail Address Book" if it's not already selected.
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Brian Tillman