Have you enbled your Contacts folder as an Address Book?  Right-click
Contacts, choose Properties, click the Outlook Address Book tab.

Those names are unrelated to your contacts.  They are addresses to which
you've send messages in the past.  See this:
http://www.ingressor.com/autocompletetips.htm

Thanks, I appreicate your input.  When I click my contacts folder I only get
two windows:  Open New Windows and navigation pane options.  That folder is
in the lower left column.  So where is the contacts folder located?  I can't
even find a place to put "contacts" in the task bar area...

You said the names I have sent messages to in the past are unrelated...but
they are stored somewhere because they automatically appear when i begin
typing a name in the "to" window...I want to see that list, pick from it
those I want to email.

Sorry if I'm dense but on my old computer when I clicked address book, those
who I have sent messages to in the past, simply appear.  I am beginning to
think I must manually insert these names etc, into contact manager.

Thanks---and thanks again if you have any other advice where to go from here.
Jim Alexander