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I've also posted in the XP forum since I'm not certain where this belongs.

XP operating system; MS Office 2003; OE 6

Long-time OE user. I decided a while ago to try out Outlook and imported all the emails into Outlook to experiment with, but continued to use OE and store emails on the hard drive.

I decided to make the permanent switch yesterday, but didn't want to do another import to Outlook because I presumed I would be duplicating 99 % of the emails.

So, I decided to add a new user account with administrator privileges and when I did, the sole user account named "Administrator" disappeared. All of the emails were in that "Administrator" user account. Now I can't access the emails to import them into Outlook in the new user account and I can't access the "Administrator" account since it has disappeared.

I've tried to do a system restore, but it doesn't work (never has, for that matter).

Any ideas on how I can manage to import the emails and address book into Outlook in my new user account? or how to go back to the old user account entitled "Administrator" so I can get at my emails?