Migrated Outlook 2003 to 2007 on new PC and now Address Book hosed

[Watchman]

I migrated my XP professional settings to Vista professional (I know I know!)
and when I create an Outlook (Enterprised ed.) email, the To list is empty.
Drop down Address Book list is empty. When I click Advanced Find I get modal
dialog "The search cannot be completed. Tou must have an address list to
search in. If you don't have an address list contact your Microsoft Exchange
admin." I don't have Microsoft Exchange. Under Tools/Account
Settings/Address Book I have Outlook Address Book MAPI but Remove is
disabled. Under Contacts Folder under Properties, Outlook Address Book tab,
the "Show this folder email address book" check box is disabled. I have
uninstalled the product and reinstalled it - no luck. The registry has evil
stuff. I tried renaming my C:\Users\...\outlook directory,
uninstalled/reinstalled and then Outlook wouldn't run - again the evil
registry entries "remembering" the wrong stuff.

So now I'm at my wit's end. The only option I see is to reload windows from
scratch to get a clean registry - unless someone can help me figure out how
to activate the "show this folder" button. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Do not multipost.

 

[DL]

Assuming you dont use Exchange, use the mail applet in the control panel to
create a new profile, correctly configure your account, add the data file &
accounts
Uninstalling / reinstalling OL has no affect on an incorrectly configured
profile or its data