Win98SE retail full install and fully updated. Using only OE, not Outlook
anything.

During a send/receive sessions, system crashes saying conflict with
DIRECTDB.DLL.

MS KB says this is caused by corrupt Folders.Dbx. Rename and restart to
create a new, clean Folders.dbx.

Sure -- but that removes all of the folder organization! My mail is sorted
by states and countries (as well as many other sub-sub topics) and this
creates one single level group of 275 (unmanageable) folders!

How do I regain/retain the folder organization?

Also, what causes this fault/corruption? This is the second time this exact
same thing has happened (once on prior Win98SE install).

Ike

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That having been said...

Take a look at this MS KB article, it may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q225/8/67.asp

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