I recently had to reformat my c: drive and reinstall Windows XP and
Office XP, including Outlook 2002.

Since then, whenever I hot synch my Palm Pilot with Outlook, the hot
synch is interrupted with a dialog saying "This action cannot be
completed because the 'Inbox Microsoft Outlook' program is not
responding. Choose 'Switch to" and connect the problem." When I
press the 'Switch to" button, I get a second dialog, which says,
"Microsoft Outlook - A program is trying to access e-mail addresses
you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is
unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose 'No.' " This is
followed by a checkbox with the label "Allow access for " followed by
a dropdown for choosing between one and ten minutes.

It is only when I choose that choice that the hot synch can continue.
How can I permanently bypass this interruption? I can't find anything
in the Outlook settings that controls it. Before the re-installation,
this did not happen.

Musawwir Spiegel