Glad to hear it's now fixed. Might stick that info in the back of your
mind when you do any future Office updates and then have mail problems.
It's the most likely cause. Thanks for the feedback.
--
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
...
Jim,

Not as the default news reader - but the SP for Office did reset the
default mail program. And that was the problem.

You know, I suspected it was the service pack, but was guessing that
it was bad code. It never occurred to me that it might have been a
deliberate effect - despite the fact that MSFT has a long history of
precisely that sort of blunder.

Thanks and thanks to all.

Mike

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
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
...
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