Ok, I checked my registry as indicated by the MS Knowledge base, reinstall my 'office 97' including both SPs on my WIN XP PRO system. But I can't get Outlook express 6.0 to find the MS office ...

My Messenger service is manually disabled. I tried turning it on but that didn't fix it. So, it's back to off.<BR><BR>The only thing I've done with Outlook is set up my school IMAP account in it.