Robert, thanks again for your help.

1) my PST file's actual size I need to check on... but I have some 27,000 emails and some 600 contacts plus some moderate use on the calendar side.... no idea how big the PST files actually are, but I will try to figure this out and let you know.

2) My Outlook is part of a stand alone PC, so Im not running this on a corporate network and my PST files are all on my resident hard drive. My system is an IBM ThinkPad T30 with a 60GB drive and 1MB RAM. Im running XP Professional and had the pre-installed MS Office Professional 2002 package delivered with the system from the IBM factory.

3) As for the version of the Outlook, I dont think its Corporate or Workgroup, since as I state above its part of a stand alone laptop and the Office Suite was purchased as a factory installed option or what I assume was a one user one license version of the Office Suite.

As a final comment.... Ive started a new thread with some Windows XP issues that Ive now detected. I dont know if Im paranoid or what, but now it seems like my entire OS is acting up.... I cant even change the settings of the screen saver without the sistem hanging and showing me the dreaded "not responding" label. Maybe my Outlook issues are related to some bug or corrupted file or function that I have in my OS...?

Please see details of my Windows problems here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...wpost&t=335225