Using Outlook 2000 SP-3 w/ latest updates in IMO mode.

I observe the following behavior of Outlook Contacts:

Say I have a contact stored with the name "Ivan Butora" and e-mail
"ivan@xxx.com". I send an e-mail to this contact.

Outlook then "ties" the properties of the "To" field of this e-mail
message to the actual contact, meaning than any later modifications of
the contact will be reflected also in the "To" field of the e-mail
message! This is problematic, at least in the two following scenarios:

1. Let's say "Ivan Butora" gets a new e-mail address, which is now
"ivan@yyy.net". I update the contact's e-mail with this information.
Afterwards, when I open the message I had sent, and double-click "Ivan
Butora" in the "To" field, the e-mail address that will show is the new
one, despite the fact that the e-mail message had actually been sent to
the former e-mail address!

2. What's worse is if I end up deleting the contact "Ivan Butora" for
some reason. In such case, when double-clicking the "To" field in the
message I had sent, I receive the following error message:

"The name or distribution list has been deleted and is no longer a
valid Address Book entry."

I receive this error message even if I subsequently recreate the
contact for "Ivan Butora".

This behavior of Outlook is very annoying and misleading. It
essentially gives the user false information about e-mails that were
sent.

Interestingly enough, Outlook does not actually delete the TRUE
information - rather, it overlays them. The proof of this is that if
you import the affected e-mail message to Outlook Express, it WILL have
the correct e-mail address, despite the modifications that were later
made to the contact in Outlook.

Questions:

1. Is there any way to modify this behavior of Outlook, i.e. to have it
simply give me the information from the e-mail as it was actually sent?

2. Do the same quirks exist in later versions of Outlook? Can someone
confirm? It's a pretty simple test.

Thanks!

IB