Re-entered. Other try produced no result, and I got the quality feedback
email.

Old laptop screen dead. Installed Office XP on new laptop (Vista)-- version
shows in Calendar, Help-About as Outlook 2002 (10.6822.6830)SP3. I moved the
old outlook.pst to the new Vista computer’s correct location. Calendar
opened and all looked to be working well at first, but...

1. Many items were one hour earlier in the new Outlook Having thought about
it, now I think they were all recurring items. I searched for all that were
wrong (lots) and reset them to the correct time.

2. But now the real problem: Trying to do most things with any recurring
item produces: "Can't open this item. The object is not valid." I tried to
open them—they won’t. I can delete them, but only by selecting it and hit
Del. Rt click produces nothing. When I recreate one, ohmigosh, any newly
created recurring item acts the same way. You can create any new recurring
item, but they have this the same quirk. You cannot move it—delivers you a
message: “The item may not have been deleted correctly. If someone sent you
the item, that person’s copy of the item may not be updated. The object is
not valid.�

Hey, is that a clue in that statement? If you physically move outlook.pst
to a new Outlook installation, does it consider that to be another person’s
copy which cannot be updated (and besides, why would Outlook have that
restriction anyway?). But further, even if that were true, why can I not
create valid new recurring appointments?

I have seen some posts in other forums about the ““The item may not have
been deleted correctly…� message. All seem to related in some way to a time
problem (as I had as well. I never saw a resolution though. I do still have
the original pst available from the unusable laptop.

This is an emergency of high order (well to me anyway). I have tons of
recurring appts and use them often. The reminders on them do still operate,
BTW. Please help.

I'll be happy to provide what ever other info you need. I'm desperate. I did
do an overall text web search for the "Can't open this item...". phrase (no
number is included in the error response), to no avail. Really need help
here. My Outlook calendar is my life, and the old machine, on which calendar
worked fine, is unusable as a laptop (screen dead).