The Activities tab can not show items in an archive PST file along with those in your main folders. You can, however, create a new activities group on the Properties dialog for the Contacts folder and have it look at the archive folder.

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> After I archieve an e-mail I can no longer get to it
> through the activity tab of a contact. When I see the
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> Franz Neumeyer