Depending on what page I look at only hotmail accounts which are paid for may
be linked in with outlook. Other pages offer directions, which fail to work.

Typical failure is "
Task 'Hotmail : Folder : Inbox Synchronziing headers.' reported error
(0x800CCCF6): 'An unknown error has occured. Please save any existing work
and restart the program.'
"

Now I have used/configured it to work w/ half a dozen other email types, but
never hotmail.

mtumavrick wrote:

Depending on what page I look at only hotmail accounts which are paid
for may be linked in with outlook. Other pages offer directions,
which fail to work.

If you're using Hotmail Plus or Premium, you can use
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AA0AD3B0-E1A4-4990-A2BE-DDE78FED0709&displaylang=en
If you're using Windows Live, you can also try
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]