Outlook won't store my password

[Agent Smith]

I just reinstalled Outlook onto a new hard drive, but now it's working
subtly different. For some reason, I can't get it to store my password for
retrieving my emails from my ISP. Does anybody know why Outlook would
*refuse* to store my password?

 

[DL]

Version of OL?
o/s?
Did you 'restore' in any way from a backup?
If so how?

 

[Agent Smith]

Version of OL?
o/s?
Did you 'restore' in any way from a backup?
If so how?

I use Outlook 2000 and Windows XP Pro. I kind of 'restored' from
backup, because when I 'ported, I copied all of my emails by copying the
outlook.pst file from the old disk to the new one. I copied all of the
information that allows me to retrieve messages by importing an iaf file
for each account.