Interesting. Do you have the latest service packs for Outlook installed?
(http://officeupdate.microsoft.com to check)

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> Outlook 2003
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> It's driving me absolutely crazy!! No rules are set to play a sound
> and I can't fix this for the life of me .. HELP!