A couple of questions about importing contacts files:

(A) I am working with Apple support engineers to overcome an issue with
Outlook/iPhone/MobileMe syncing. (MobileMe is an Apple cloud service that
syncs wirelessly between Outlook and the iPhone.) Apple have asked me to
import a new "clean" copy of my Outlook Contacts which they have created for
me in vcf file format. They have asked me to do this in case my current,
original Contacts files has become corrupt in some way and is therefore
causing MobileMe syncing of Outlook contacts to fail (syncing of Outlook
calendar is OK).

[I have backed up all my original Outlook files in any case, so I will not
lose my original data whatever happens.]

So now, in order to follow the Apple engineer's instruction I need to
replace my current Contacts in Outlook (possibly corrupt) with their "clean"
copy of the same data. I know how to import new data files which then show up
as SEPARATE files in my Outlook Contacts menu. However in this case I think I
need to delete the current Contacts folder or file and and then replace it
with the new one. Am I correct that the newly imported file will need to have
the same file name as the deleted one (i.e "Contacts",) so that Outlook will
correctly consider the newly imported file as my default contacts list
associated with my current master pst file as my current one - which also
contains my email and calendar. How can I achieve this? The procedure seems
different to simply importing a file and opening it ALONGSIDE the master
Contact file. Also, I don't recall vcf as an importable format in the Outlook
Import/Export menu? Is it not?

(B) In readiness for (A) above, I just created a backup contacts file,
opened it in Outlook OK, then deleted it from the Outlook file list on the
left of the Outlook window. The file appeared to disappear out of the recycle
basket OK, but now, every time I open Outlook, a box comes up saying that it
can't find this file - which I deliberately deleted. All my original contacts
are OK in their original file. What else do I have to do to stop Outlook from
searching needlessly for the deleted contacts file?

Thanks in anticipation for any advice you can give.

David
London