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From M$ website

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, copy the contents of the Outlook 2003 .pst file to a .pst file that has not been converted to the Outlook 2003 Unicode format.

To copy information from a Unicode-formatted .pst file to an ANSI-formatted .pst file, follow these steps.

Note To follow these steps, you must have a .pst file from an earlier version of Outlook.

1. Start Outlook 2003.
2. On the File menu, click Data File Management, and then click Add.
3. Click Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File (PST).
4. Click OK.
5. Click OK to accept the default name, and then click OK again.
   
   Outlook 2003 now creates a new .pst file that is based on the earlier .pst and maintains the ANSI formatting for that .pst file.
6. Click Close.
7. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Folder List.
   
   In the navigation pane, you now see the new .pst file.
8. Drag the information from your existing Outlook 2003 folders to the new .pst file.
9. In the navigation pane, right-click the new .pst file, and then click Close "file_name".

Note E-mail messages or other items that contain Unicode characters will not be copied to the new .pst file.