Chris Peikert wrote:

On 9/1/2006 I backed up my PST file.

Describe exactly how you did this. Also state your version of Outlook.

On 9/26/06 I deleted a bunch of
folder out of my email and screwed it up so I decided to restore my
old PST file from backup. So I labeled the current pst file to
outlook.pst.old and then restored the PST file from 9/1/2006.

State exactly how you did this. Did you simply rename the existing PST and
then give the packup PST the name the existing one had? Oops. Mail profile
corruption ahead.

When I
opened my Outlook back up the folders are still missing. I checked
the data path and its pointing to the correct PST file. What gives?
Where are the restored folders? The PST file shows its 260MB and when
i go through the folders there is no more than 50MB of information.
Where is the other 210MB of stuff?

Try creating a new mail profile now and point it at the PST you wish to use.
See if that makes a difference.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm . Of course, some versions
of Outlook (Outlook 98 and 2000 in Internet Mail Only mode) don't allow your
create a new mail profile without messing with the registry, but since you
didn't specify your version of Outlook, no one can know whether that applies
to you or not.
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Brian Tillman