I switched over to MS Outlook in June and think it is worse than OE... For the last year or more when I go auto MS updates it would switch over to MS Outlook as the default and I would have to manually set OE as the default Then...... I had a good number of Folders lost in Outlook explorer I think just before June. I just got an email from a guy who said his folders in OE disappeared on him after I emailed him in January. I have tried Mozilla Thunderbird in the last few months with some gmail accounts and I am not sure I like it. Does any know of this is a problem with OE possibly when one upgrades to VER 8 of IE which I just learned a few days ago does not have OE in it. Any oen can help out with some background or knowledge or suggestions Thanks Paul