When I click the To: field in a new message window to bring up the Outlook Address Book A thing pops up and says: The address list could not be displayed . The Contacts folder associated with this address list could not be opened; it may have  been moved or deleted, or you do not have permissions. For information on how to remove this folder from the outlook Address Book, see Microsoft Oulook Help.
If you press ok the box with the Show names from the: Outlook Address Book (No Entries in this Address...)
                                                                               Contacts (brings up the above message)
                                                                               Personal Address Book (Nothing Happens)

Sorry it isn't clear, I thought I described the problem and all the error
messages pretty well, anyway, it is fixed. I fixed it by going to Control
Panel- Mail and removing the only profile there, Outlook, and then creating
a new profile. Now everything works fine. It wasn't quite that simple though
because after removing the profile Outlook I tried to create a new profile
with the same name and kept getting the error message that a profile with
that name already existed. Even if I tried to add a new profile with some
unique bizarre name I would get the same error message and could not create
a new profile. Finally I went into the Registry and deleted the profiles
there (it had all the unique profile names I had tried and the profile
Outlook numerous times as I had tried to create it). Once I did that I was
able to add a new profile named outlook and things are working as they
should.
This all started because I upgraded from Win 98SE to XP Pro and didn't
import-export my Outlook files properly. I saved the original outlook.pst on
a disk and then after installing XP I just replaced that outlook.pst folder
with the old one that had all my old folders and contacts etc. Apparently
that was not totally compatible and corrupted something.
Dale