I have been having connection issues with Outlook where it can't connect to my university imap accounts to recieve mail. Then a strange thing happened today. I'm working on reformatting my wife's laptop for her (it's running slow and hasn't been reformatted since she got it 4 years ago) and I backed up her Outlook data file for her. To make sure that the exported data file contained everything it needed I copied it into my Outlook data file directory (C:\Documents and Settings\Eric\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook) and renamed my Outlook.pst to Outlook.pst.old and renamed hers to Outlook.pst. Then I start up Outlook and verify that her data is there and also realize that it has fixed my connection issues that I was having. So I closed down Outlook renamed my data file back to Outlook.pst, opened Outlook and the connection issues are still fixed . . . very strange.