Address book missing, but Contacts shows the list

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Mac

Hi,

Using Outlook 2003 on a dual-booted system WIN2K Pro SP4/WINXP Pro SP1.
Setup Outlook on the WIN2K system first earlier this year. Have decided to
move to XP as my main O/S. The Outlook.pst file is in the My Documents
folder on another partition on a second HDD on this PC.

I installed Office 2003, and then opened Outlook and set-up my POP3 email
account. Closed Outlook and renamed the Outlook.pst file to Outlook.old.
When I re-opened Outlook, it asked for the location of the .pst file and I
pointed it to the .pst file in the My Documents folder, which it accepted
and displayed all my mail folders correctly.

The problem is that when I click on the Address Book icon (or when I click
on the TO: button when composing a new message) I get this error message:
"The address list could not be displayed. The Contacts folder associated
with this address list could not be opened; it may have been moved or
deleted, or you do not have permissions. For information on how to remove
this folder from the Outlook Address Book, see Microsoft Office Outlook
Help."
When I click on the Contacts tab, it shows all of the information that I was
using in Outlook when using WIN2K as the O/S.

I log-on in both O/S'es with Administrator privileges.

What do I need to do to get the Address Book working under WIN XP?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Mac
 
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