Hi, Russ,

Yes, everything is OK over here on this side of the Big Herring Pond. Great
you jumped in with an attempt to help me. My planned transition to a new
machine is still a few months away but once I start things I want them to be
done quick.

The reason the new machine will be installed with WinXP-Pro and Office
2003-Pro instead of the latest versions of Vista and Office 2007 is  A) I
have no desire to risk going into Vista right now, and B) I have an unused
set of complete versions of these two packages at hand. The money saved by
not having to buy new software, particularly the Office package (???? !!!)
will be much better spent in the new hardware I'm going to buy.

Now to your questions:

A number of my contacts are set to create Journal entries automatically for
E-mails received and sent and for phone calls initiated directly from
Outlook. Additionally some more entries are also created manually whenever
thought necessary. Office documents are included amongst these, normally
having been created by drag-and-drop within Outlook, but of course these
could just as well be created manually.

Currently a normal archiving process is run every few days, and at the end
of each year a discrete archive file is created for the year that has just
ended. The entire content of the current PST file is regularly archived,
with the exception of Contacts and Journal.

In the current PST file each contact thus will display the entire list of
journal entries, in some case from a fair number of years back. The
individual items those old Journal entries refer to are of course stored in
their respective yearly archive files. The important thing for me here is to
be able to see at a single glance things like "... this-or-that-received at
this-or-that date..." or "... this-or-that-discussed with this-or-that
contact at this-or-that date..." The need to actually review any of these
items does not arise too frequently, so when it does it is not too much
trouble for me to open the particular yearly archive and look it up.

On the new machine of course I'd like to run UNICODE code PST files. I
understand my old ANSI PST files will continue to be readable by the system,
but I would not mind having them converted from ANSI to UNICODE format as
the old machine will be retired for good as soon as the new one is running
properly with all material transferred to it.

So the crux of my problem burns down to the question of how to proceed so
that the associations between Journal entries and their respective Contacts
will remain intact - in other words all I want to have is to continue to be
able to see the list of Journal entries on the respective tab page of each
individual contact, plus the entire sortable list in the Journal folder
itself.

I hope this will clear things up a little bit but please do not hesitate to
ask back for forther information if necessary.

Thanks a lot in advance for your help,

Kind regards,

Johannes