All E-main links "not responding"

[john4life]

I have been using Outlook 2003 for some time. No problems.
All of a sudden, today, when I click on a link in a received email, I
receive an hourglass and then after a few seconds, "not responding" and I
must ctrl-alt-del and mark the email, the link and outlook to "end task" in
the "task manager." After several "end task" tries, the program ends and I am
back to my home page.
I can not connect to ANY links from Outlook.

I talked with ISP (Windstream.net) (DSL) and when I connected to my email at
their web site, the link worked.

HELP! HELP! HELP! PLEASE!

TIA

john4life