This problem started 2 months ago. I'll try to be as precise as possible.
this started when i installed McAfee Spamkiller and trying to tweak some
settings. I noticed that laptop has been starting up really slow so i wanted
to diagnose the issue and so i launched msconfig and disabled all
non-microsoft services and startups and i restarted my laptop. then the next
time, obviously, none of McAfee products were running since i had disabled
all their services. I tried launching outlook 2003 (that was working fine
till now) but it didnt startup even in 10 mins...then i ended it thru task
manager...then i launched again..this time it asked me to do so in safe
mode.. safe mode didnt work either...and then detect and repair and that
didnt work either...so i uninstalled Mcafee Spamkiller..that didnt work..then
i went to Mcafee support site and their engineer gave me a utility that
completely removes spamkiller...i did so...nothing worked...

So then...as my last resort..i restored my laptop to a previous date using
system restore...and my outlook worked fine...but with this also came back
Spamkiller...as spamkiller was installed while this restore point was
created...so i uninstalled spamkiller...and then restarted laptop...Outlook
took 10 minutes to startup...in all modes (normal, safe, detect and
repair)... so i enabled all the disabled non-microsoft services....

so far 3 months have passed and i m still unable to get my outlook to work
properly...
Outlook starts but then it hangs for 10 mins and then it starts running
normal...
when i launch outlook and monitor outlook.exe in the task manager processes
it is stuck...no CPU utilization or no increase memory...

So far i have tried following
uninstalling office and reinstalling
reinstalling spamkiller and uninstalling
deleting my profile
using another profile
deleting all email accounts
creating a new email profile
disabling all add ons and com addins
trying diff accounts (pop, exchange, http)

now i have uninstalled spamkiller permanently

i m using windows Xp...1GB Ram..Sp2...Office 2003 with SP2 and my windows is
updated to date...i have 2 POP accounts and 1 exchange account...my company
uses exchange 2k3 server.

Please help....this is longest any problem has ever taken in my life!!

let me know if mroe information is needed..