I've just gotten a new computer for my husband. It is loaded with Vista Home
Basic Service Pack 1, he hates change so I'm trying to load Office XP onto
it. Everything installed without issue. I've got Outlook 2002 and loaded XP3
onto it.

I think that this happened ... I had to move his addresses from an Outlook
Express over to Outlook (thought it would be time for him to upgrade). I
copied the .wab file over and used outlooks 'import' function to import the
addresses. I got the message at that time (expectedly) "A program is trying
to access e-mail addresses you have stored in outlook." with the choice to
allow for 1,5,10 minutes.

BUT... that program has long finished and I get this message the moment I
open Outlook. It is extremely annoying.

Any ideas? Please speak in plain English, I've seen some of the other
similar questions and have no idea what the person was saying... thanks for
any help you can offer, hate to resort to using Windows Mail instead.