i recently set up express to use a for different business i started. when i
noticed that the huge contact list from my outook 2000 showed in express, i
deleted it, not know that this would delete it in 2000. with further
investigation i found that two contact sub folders now existed in 2000 with
all of my original contacts.

now outlook 2000 never loads properly, eats up all memory allocated but
never completes loading. sometimes it gets to the, do you want to create new
personal folder window, but when i push yes it goes away and outlook sits
there still using all the memory. the outlook pst file is 497,000 . funny
thing is i can still send emails by using my access database to open the send
window.  i think that maybe my contact and past send and inbox files are so
large that outlook cannot handle the memory needs. i have tried re installing
outlook but this does not fix the problem. what should i try?