Office 2003 acting VERY strangely!!

I've had Office 2003 installed on my laptop since March 2007 and it has
worked beautifully--until yesterday. Now I never know what the navigation
panes are going to look like. Yesterday I noticed one of my inboxes listed
under the "My Calendars" section in the Calendar navigation pane. Nothing I
did could delete it nor could I figure out how it got there in the first
place. I also noticed the Calendar icon in my "Favorite Folders" section
which I couldn't delete. I fiddled and fussed with it to no avail. This
morning when I turned on my laptop and opened Office, the inbox in "My
Calendars" had been replaced by another inbox (I have 3) and the Calendar
icon had disappeared from Favorite Folders but so had my main Inbox. I did
the "Detect and Repair" bit (which I had also done yesterday), but it didn't
fix my problems, so I completely deleted my partially missing email account
and re-created it. I closed Outlook and re-opened it and voila, I had my
email account back but I also had the Calendar icon back in the Favorite
Folders pane as well as having the original inbox that was in the "My
Calendars" section back in that section!!

I looked to see if I had downloaded an update to Office the last couple of
days, but the last time I updated anything for Office was 1/15/09. I am
about to do a clean install of Vista since I have had nothing but grief
since SP1 came down the pike and I just went out and bought a portable hard
drive to save all my stuff on, but the last thing I want to do is save the
Office settings when they're this wonky. I've never had any problems with
Office before, so this has me totally mystified (not to mention frustrated).

Help anyone???

TIA,

Rebecca

What type of Mail Accounts, pop,IMAP ? etc

Grief, depends to a certain extent on what you install/run on your PC and
your hardware, eg installing drivers from MS Update is in most circumstances
a definate no no

"Rebecca" wrote in message
...
I've had Office 2003 installed on my laptop since March 2007 and it has
worked beautifully--until yesterday. Now I never know what the navigation
panes are going to look like. Yesterday I noticed one of my inboxes
listed under the "My Calendars" section in the Calendar navigation pane.
Nothing I did could delete it nor could I figure out how it got there in
the first place. I also noticed the Calendar icon in my "Favorite
Folders" section which I couldn't delete. I fiddled and fussed with it to
no avail. This morning when I turned on my laptop and opened Office, the
inbox in "My Calendars" had been replaced by another inbox (I have 3) and
the Calendar icon had disappeared from Favorite Folders but so had my main
Inbox. I did the "Detect and Repair" bit (which I had also done
yesterday), but it didn't fix my problems, so I completely deleted my
partially missing email account and re-created it. I closed Outlook and
re-opened it and voila, I had my email account back but I also had the
Calendar icon back in the Favorite Folders pane as well as having the
original inbox that was in the "My Calendars" section back in that
section!!

I looked to see if I had downloaded an update to Office the last couple of
days, but the last time I updated anything for Office was 1/15/09. I am
about to do a clean install of Vista since I have had nothing but grief
since SP1 came down the pike and I just went out and bought a portable
hard drive to save all my stuff on, but the last thing I want to do is
save the Office settings when they're this wonky. I've never had any
problems with Office before, so this has me totally mystified (not to
mention frustrated).

Help anyone???

TIA,

Rebecca

They're all imap accounts. It's just so weird. Like I said, Outlook has
been working perfectly since March '07 and now, out of the blue, it's acting
up.

I do the Windows update but I always check it before downloading since there
are some items I'm not interested in. I have updated all the drivers that
could be updated by going back to the source--Dell--or the driver
manufacturer. While I'm dreading all the work ahead of me doing this "clean
install" of Vista SP1, I'm also looking forward to having a machine that
performs decently (keeping my fingers crossed on that one). I'm so sick of
all the BSODs, slow responses, errors galore, etc., that I reluctantly
agreed with the MS Tech Support fellow and opted to go back to the
beginning. We shall see...



"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
What type of Mail Accounts, pop,IMAP ? etc

Grief, depends to a certain extent on what you install/run on your PC and
your hardware, eg installing drivers from MS Update is in most
circumstances a definate no no

"Rebecca" wrote in message
...
I've had Office 2003 installed on my laptop since March 2007 and it has
worked beautifully--until yesterday. Now I never know what the
navigation panes are going to look like. Yesterday I noticed one of my
inboxes listed under the "My Calendars" section in the Calendar
navigation pane. Nothing I did could delete it nor could I figure out how
it got there in the first place. I also noticed the Calendar icon in my
"Favorite Folders" section which I couldn't delete. I fiddled and fussed
with it to no avail. This morning when I turned on my laptop and opened
Office, the inbox in "My Calendars" had been replaced by another inbox (I
have 3) and the Calendar icon had disappeared from Favorite Folders but
so had my main Inbox. I did the "Detect and Repair" bit (which I had
also done yesterday), but it didn't fix my problems, so I completely
deleted my partially missing email account and re-created it. I closed
Outlook and re-opened it and voila, I had my email account back but I
also had the Calendar icon back in the Favorite Folders pane as well as
having the original inbox that was in the "My Calendars" section back in
that section!!

I looked to see if I had downloaded an update to Office the last couple
of days, but the last time I updated anything for Office was 1/15/09. I
am about to do a clean install of Vista since I have had nothing but
grief since SP1 came down the pike and I just went out and bought a
portable hard drive to save all my stuff on, but the last thing I want to
do is save the Office settings when they're this wonky. I've never had
any problems with Office before, so this has me totally mystified (not to
mention frustrated).

Help anyone???

TIA,

Rebecca

You might want to run the hd testing utility obtained from the hd
manufacturers site, also a memory test, www.memtest.org

"Rebecca" wrote in message
...
They're all imap accounts. It's just so weird. Like I said, Outlook has
been working perfectly since March '07 and now, out of the blue, it's
acting up.

I do the Windows update but I always check it before downloading since
there are some items I'm not interested in. I have updated all the
drivers that could be updated by going back to the source--Dell--or the
driver manufacturer. While I'm dreading all the work ahead of me doing
this "clean install" of Vista SP1, I'm also looking forward to having a
machine that performs decently (keeping my fingers crossed on that one).
I'm so sick of all the BSODs, slow responses, errors galore, etc., that I
reluctantly agreed with the MS Tech Support fellow and opted to go back to
the beginning. We shall see...



"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
What type of Mail Accounts, pop,IMAP ? etc

Grief, depends to a certain extent on what you install/run on your PC and
your hardware, eg installing drivers from MS Update is in most
circumstances a definate no no

"Rebecca" wrote in message
...
I've had Office 2003 installed on my laptop since March 2007 and it has
worked beautifully--until yesterday. Now I never know what the
navigation panes are going to look like. Yesterday I noticed one of my
inboxes listed under the "My Calendars" section in the Calendar
navigation pane. Nothing I did could delete it nor could I figure out
how it got there in the first place. I also noticed the Calendar icon
in my "Favorite Folders" section which I couldn't delete. I fiddled and
fussed with it to no avail. This morning when I turned on my laptop and
opened Office, the inbox in "My Calendars" had been replaced by another
inbox (I have 3) and the Calendar icon had disappeared from Favorite
Folders but so had my main Inbox. I did the "Detect and Repair" bit
(which I had also done yesterday), but it didn't fix my problems, so I
completely deleted my partially missing email account and re-created it.
I closed Outlook and re-opened it and voila, I had my email account back
but I also had the Calendar icon back in the Favorite Folders pane as
well as having the original inbox that was in the "My Calendars" section
back in that section!!

I looked to see if I had downloaded an update to Office the last couple
of days, but the last time I updated anything for Office was 1/15/09. I
am about to do a clean install of Vista since I have had nothing but
grief since SP1 came down the pike and I just went out and bought a
portable hard drive to save all my stuff on, but the last thing I want
to do is save the Office settings when they're this wonky. I've never
had any problems with Office before, so this has me totally mystified
(not to mention frustrated).

Help anyone???

TIA,

Rebecca