System tray open options

[Trident]

One of the features that I wanted in Outlook from the beginning, but
that I never saw, was the option to right-click the system tray icon
and be able to open a specific Outlook folder (ie. mail, tasks,
calendar, etc). Strangely enough, last week, I had that option. It
wasn't perfect- it had a sub-list next to "Open Outlook" that gave me
"Open Inbox", "Open Notes", "Open Unread Mail", "Open Inbox"- so that
it was obviously a list of the last few folders that I had opened, and
not a list of ALL AVAILABLE in order of most used (the way I would
prefer it).
Now (after a MS update that didn't list anything about this option)
it's gone.The whole thing lasted for no more than a week and I never
made any changes in my system or in Outlook/Office that had anything to
do with it. But I'd sure like it back. I have a feeling it was one of
the updates that brought it, and another that took it away, but I have
zero proof.
Anyone else know anything about this? Or how I can get it back?

 

[Trident]

Sorry, I didn't note that I'm using Outlook2003 on a WinXP-MCE system.

 

[Trident]

Even more interesting- I just reinstalled Office on my wife's laptop.
Her Outlook2003 has the menu options in the systray. Is it possible
that the addition of Google Desktop Search could do this? It did start
to appear on my system around the same time as an update of GDS and
disappeared after a reinstall. I installed GDS on her computer before
installing Office. The menu option remains on hers but not mine.