Well, my worst nightmare happened. I backed up my .pst file by copying
it to another drive, and Windows forced a restart during the copy when I
had stepped away (BSOD?). Somehow that corrupted both versions of the
file so that I could open neither.

I'm at the point where I have an older backup of the .pst file that is
in good shape, and I've used scanpst.exe to repair the corrupted file. I
lost a ton of stuff, but would like to salvage what is still there.

So I've made the intact backup the default file and added the repaired
..pst as an additional data file. I can navigate around the repaired file
just fine, but when I try to copy or move items from the repaired file
to the default file I get a message "Cannot move the items". If I right
click on an item and select move, it lets me select the destination
folder then says "Cannot move the items. One or more parameter values
are not valid".

Is there any way I can copy or move the items to my default file? This
is Outlook 2007.

Thanks!
Don