Outlook 2003 eating CPU

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hedera

I have Outlook 2003 on Windows XP SP2 (I uninstalled SP3 when I realized it
didn't support ActiveSync but that's another issue). System is a Dell 8400,
3 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM.

Lately when I try to type an email, Outlook goes into a loop and stops
responding: cursor jitters, windows can't be accessed, Outlook vanishes from
the ALT-TAB task bar, and Task Manager shows Outlook essentially eating all
the available CPU. I have to kill Outlook from the task manager. Today it's
done this like, 3 times (I haven't rebooted yet but I'm about to).

I found a thread here ("Slow Outlook 2003 KB935966 KB934708 KB931832
KB931768") that suggested removing update 931768, which IS installed on my
system; but it also seemed to suggest that the problem could be caused by
SpyBot and require some registry hacks to fix. Frankly it isn't clear from
that thread what I should do to fix this. Suggestions anyone?
 

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