OL 98 'Out of Office' Assistant missing

Hi can someone help me figure out what happened to my out
of office assistant?
I've read all the knowledge base articles & nothing helps.
I'm running OL98 w/IE 6.0 (SP1 & all other updates)
I've reinstalled OL98 three time & yes I've installed it
with Corporate/work group.

There's nothing in my tool bar menu but my assistant
displays how to set up 'out of office.'
I'm really stumped!
Thanks

Out of Office Assistant is an available feature only if you connect to Microsoft Exchange Server as your mail server. If you don't use Exchange Server, you can use Outlook Rules Wizard or one of the third-party automatic rules processing addins. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/index.htm and http://www.slipstick.com/addins/index.htm .

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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"Billie" <billie.goodman@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:019b01c377e9$5b19d210$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi can someone help me figure out what happened to my out
> of office assistant?
> I've read all the knowledge base articles & nothing helps.
> I'm running OL98 w/IE 6.0 (SP1 & all other updates)
> I've reinstalled OL98 three time & yes I've installed it
> with Corporate/work group.
>
> There's nothing in my tool bar menu but my assistant
> displays how to set up 'out of office.'
> I'm really stumped!
> Thanks