I am unable to do mail merges for the last few weeks.  Since I've downloaded all the "Security" updates from
Microsoft.  I am using Office 2003 so Word, Excel and Outlook are 2003. I am trying to do a simple email merge with one merge field: <First Name>. The data source is an Excel spreadsheet with email address, first name, last name and company name

I open up the merge document and the data source and can preview the merged letters. I then merge to email and
change mail format to plain text and click OK. Then I get dialog boxes trying to match my email addresses with ones
in my Outlook address book. If the person in theExcel list is called Ann and I have an Ann in my address book,
it sends the email to the Ann in the address book not the Ann in the data source. These emails are sent only to
recipients whose first name  happens to reside in my address book and matches the first name in the Excel file. Emails are not sent to the email addresses in the data source file. Aside from the fact that the new security settings in Outlook
2003 now require that I click OK to approve each email (which I bypassed with a utility) now I have this problem
with the data source. Frankly, my IT guy does not know how to fix the problem other than to uninstall Office
2003 and install Office 2000

Any assistance would be appreciated to fix this problem

Thank you

Karminak