Cursor Focus at Startup

When I start Outlook, the cursor focus used to be on the first entry in
whatever folder I accessed. So for example, if I was in Contacts, I could
just start typing, and Contacts would reposition as I typed to find the
contact I was looking for, becasue the initial cursor focus was on the first
contact.

Now the cursor is in an unknown position (I've tried tabbing around to find
the cursor position, but nothing changes-no new cursor focus). So now, I've
got to click on the first contact in order to do the reposition-as-I-type.
But often, I accidentally click more than once, so all of a sudden I am
editing the selected contact. It's very frustrating. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Outlook 2003 in Office Pro 2003. Fully patched. Domain environment.

Thanks, Neil