Jocelyn,
I have a question along this line about the reminders
coming up.  I tried your suggestion and it did take care
of many reminders coming up on a restart.  HOwever,
recently my reminders just sometimes quit appearing.  I
used to could close Outlook and reopen and then a host of
them would appear.  Now I have to restart my whole system
and several still appear.  I have not changed any
settings and they always worked correctly in the past.  
It almost seems this started after I downloaded an update
pak when prompted back in august.  Any ideas.
Bert