What exactly does that box say?
Does it work correctly in Outlook Safe Mode?
Start-> Run; outlook.exe /safe
If so, it is either caused by an addin;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/88
or a corrupt outcmd.dat file
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/19
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"saintnewbie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:714F80DB-8F53-4917-9BBE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In Outlook 2003, suddenly this morning, when I try to open an e-amil, now
> or
> previously opened, a box pops up containing headings from the Menu bar. If
> I click on them, the folder lists appear, but I can't open e-mails through
> them, and if I close the box, I am back to the usual Inbox view--it just
> goes
> back and forth.