Upgrading Outloook Express to Outlook 2003, and hit a problem in that the
imported address-book entries are listed with a word-reversal in their names.

This would seem to be due to another those infuriating examples of
'fruitmachine automation' so often found in Office. It is blindly assumed
that  the addressbook entries are names of people (Westerners at that!) and
Outlook reverses the words to put (what it assumes to be) the Lastname first.

Problem arises when the entry isn't the name of a person,  but for example a
company name or website address, or where the nationality in question already
has lastname first. In either of these cases the word-reversal turns the
entry to nonsense.

There is an Outlook setting for "Default 'File As' Order" under
Tools>Options>Preferences>Contact Options..  and you would think that
changing this to "First, Last" should fix things.... but it makes no
difference at all.  Why, I'm not sure.

I have the same problem on Outllok Mobile on my WM5 phone, and would dearly
love to find a way to turn this behaviour off, so I could enter non-personal
phone numbers without the name being minced-up.  

Any suggestions?