Elmo Watson wrote:

I haven't done any updates within the last week (this just started
happening a couple of days ago), but I do have my system set up to
automatically do windows updates....the last Office update was done
manually by me several weeks ago (I blieve)
and - no - I don't have OneNote installed at all.

Try recreating the junk mail filter.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/fix_junk.htm
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Brian Tillman