Migrated Outlook 2003 to 2007 on new PC and now Address Book hosed

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Watchman

I migrated my XP professional settings to Vista professional (I know I know!)
and when I create an Outlook (Enterprised ed.) email, the To list is empty.
Drop down Address Book list is empty. When I click Advanced Find I get modal
dialog "The search cannot be completed. Tou must have an address list to
search in. If you don't have an address list contact your Microsoft Exchange
admin." I don't have Microsoft Exchange. Under Tools/Account
Settings/Address Book I have Outlook Address Book MAPI but Remove is
disabled. Under Contacts Folder under Properties, Outlook Address Book tab,
the "Show this folder email address book" check box is disabled. I have
uninstalled the product and reinstalled it - no luck. The registry has evil
stuff. I tried renaming my C:\Users\...\outlook directory,
uninstalled/reinstalled and then Outlook wouldn't run - again the evil
registry entries "remembering" the wrong stuff.

So now I'm at my wit's end. The only option I see is to reload windows from
scratch to get a clean registry - unless someone can help me figure out how
to activate the "show this folder" button. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Assuming you dont use Exchange, use the mail applet in the control panel to
create a new profile, correctly configure your account, add the data file &
accounts
Uninstalling / reinstalling OL has no affect on an incorrectly configured
profile or its data
 
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