Outlook Express suddenly stopped downloading mail. All other functions
continued to work. It would appear to have related to my pst file being too
large. I tried deleting lots of emails, but could still not fix the problem.

So I decided to purchase and install Office 2003 including Outlook. It
managed to find the old pst file and the problem persisted. So I tried moving
the pst file, but it won't create a new one. I tried renaming it .old, and it
tries to open the file but gets stuck half ways through and not even Outlook
will open.

I don't care about importing the old addresses and mails, I am happy to
start from scratch. But despite uninstalling and reinstalling, it just keeps
wanting an existing pst file... how do I get a new, clean pst file?!?!