Entourage Screwed up after SP2 Update

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sk

Dual 2 GHz G5
OS 10.4.2
Microsoft Office 2004
Entourage 2004 v11.2.0

I routinely allow Microsoft Office to check for updates and go ahead an
install these, because they are almost always small bug fixes (that I
had often not even encountered). Well, the last update that came down
has managed to completely screw up my Entourage (I don't really use the
other office product very much, whereas I use Entourage non-stop).

First of all, I encountered several problems while the update was
trying to update my data file. It kept failing and wanting to start
over. I finally had to rebuild the database, and then the update went
through.

The major change in this update is better compatibility with Exchange
servers, and on that front, I actually see a huge improvement, because
it seems like Entourage for Mac is finally a better Exchange client and
we are now able to see all public folders, and calendars, address
books, etc. However at least a few things have been broken since the
update, and I am trying to see if it is just me, or if anyone else can
verify these:

1. This is not so much a bug as it is a mini heart attack in waiting!
During the update, apparently all of your contacts and calendar events
get moved to the exchange server (obviously this only happens if you
are connected to an exchange server). So instead of these records being
in your local contact and calendar database, they are now accessed
through the exchange server versions that are created for you. That's
not such a big deal except that there was no warning about this. So
when I launched Entourage after the update, it seemed like I had lost
all my data in those areas. But they are all there. Just moved to a
different location. Although this still seems confusing, because now we
have 2 locations for calendar events and contacts.

2. Drag and drop is broken! I used to be able to drag a task or a an
email onto the calendar and create events out of them. This was a great
tool, as that is how I set up my appointments, etc. This no longer
works. Although the calendar gets highlighted and it looks like you
should be able to do this, when you let go of the task you dragged on
top of the calendar, nothing happens. There are scripts to let you do
this, but dragging and dropping was far easier and quicker.

3. Window preferences do not seem to stick. I have 3 windows open when
I am working with Entourage: 1 Main window for email on the left the
full height of the screen and then I have 2 smaller half height windows
stacked on tope of each other on the right, with one displaying tasks
and the last displaying my workweek calendar. Every time I quit out of
Entourage and come back in, the views and location of the 3 windows on
the change. I have thrown away all my preferences, etc., and it does
not seem to help. I remember back a few years ago, it seemed like if
you had Internet Explorer open, then the preferences file was not
getting written to, so in order to make changes stick, you had to quit
out of IE first and make the changes and then quit the program to make
sure the preferences were modifies and then you were good. This seem
similar to that expect that I don't use IE anymore.

Anyone has any comments on these issues? Thank you.
 

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