> So to summarize my last 3 frantic posts, I have winxp, office xp sp1,
solid
> machine ever since I built it, no freezes, hangs etc...I use mailwasher
> first to DL mail from server, filter it out before outlook, been doing
that
> for 6 months, no problems. Yesterday, I do the same process, shut down
> mailwasher, fire up outlook, hit F5 to get mail. As the scroll bar from
one
> of my mail accounts reached halfway, everything froze, then system was
> crawling slow.

> Rebooted, and just could not get outlook to boot, then tried safe mode,
same
> thing. So I moved the 460mb pst file of mine to another dir for
safekeeping
> and rebooted Outlook, got all the prompts about missing pst etc, but
atleast
> it was working smoothly. So this led me to beleive my pst was corrupted,
> somehow, but why, and how?

> I did a scanpst on the file, it found errors, fixed them, then I loaded
that
> pst back in the dir where it came from, and now there is a "lost and
found"
> section in outlooks folders, that has all my saved emails, and contacts,
but
> thats the problem, SOOOOOOO much stuff is gone, I had about 225 contacts,
> there is now ONE!, and so many emails are gone, sent mails are completely
> gone....basically I am fu#$#d!!.....I still have the original pst file, so
I
> burned it to a CD, and put on another computer, upon loading of that PST
in
> another machine (via outlook) same {*filter*}happened, slow boot, etc, and
> useless outlook.

> IS there anything I can do to get my contacts, emails, etc, back, or is
this
> the world of hell?