I got a little further. For the two employees we've installed sp2 on, I've
been having to manually apply the rule to all messages in the inbox a few
times a day. On Friday, I was doing this for one employee. I saw the error
message, closed and re-opened outlook and turned it back on (which I've done
before). I moved all her read messages to another folder and applied the rule
to her unread messages, then filed those away as well. When I came back to
do the same thing later, I discovered that the new messages that had come in
already had the out of office rule applied to them. I moved all the old
messages back into the inbox, but did not open ANY messages, and left it
there. I came back later and more new messages had come, all having the out
of office rule applied. It worked ALL WEEKEND. The employee came in today
and opened her messages to read them, then the very first message that was
delivered had the "rules in error" message. I thought I'd post it to see if
anyone else wants to give that a shot (whatever THAT is). It's still not
fixed, I didn't see any new patches as of Friday. But we might be able to get
the automation back, very carefully, after all.