Is Outlook Express set as your default news reader? Have you asked the
question in an Outlook newsgroup since a PST file is only used by
Outlook? If you install any Office updates that action will reset your
default mail and news reading program to Outlook every time. In spite
of complaints about that type of behaviour to the Office team, there has
been no change to the problems that Office updates cause for Outlook
Express users.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"dubya" wrote in message
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The reply and forward buttons and menu commands have stopped working
properly. Just discovered it and I don't use them all that much, so I
can only guess that it began sometime in the last three weeks or so.

The "unexpected behavior" is that clicking on "reply" or "forward"
brings up an error message: "The file:
drive\directory\directory\outlook.pst could not be found."

The post new message and the reply to group commands are still
working.

Many things have changed in the last three weeks, but the only
possible causes I can think of are five or six security patches to XP,
and the application of Serv. Pack 2 to Office 2003.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike