I know there is an answer for this problem, but am not finding it
anywhere.
Last year, when I had a fresh install of Windows XP and Office 2002, I
had this same problem. I found a simple explanation and fix for this
somewhere on-line, but can't seem to find it again. It has something
to do with the fact that the process behind the e-mail program was
loading and running twice instead of once. It was just a matter of
limiting it to running only once.
I'm quite interested in this again because I just did a fresh install
of everything on a new hard drive and now I am experiencing the same
problem AGAIN!
I find nothing on the microsoft site to describe or resolve this.