Please describe in painstaking detail, then, what you see in the dialog that appears when you click File | New | Distribution List in Outlook 2003. So far, nothing you've described matches any known Outlook behavior.

Also please put enough informaton in your post so we can remember what the original question was.

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There is no editable field showing to type the name of the DL.
It is for all kinds of addresses from any source and the same for a
newly created DL or an old, existing one.