>unlike its big brother which makes you navigate to the desired directory every freakin' time (sorry, it's a pet peeve).

Yesterday we got some new machines w/Office 2000, and just this morning a user was complaining to me about this. Several attachments, and having to completely re-nagivate on each one. This did not happen in Office 97.

Even tried double clicking on each attachment (spreadsheets), and 'save as' in Excel--Excel would forget where the previous on was saved (again, Excel 97 did not do this).

So, are you saying that I'm not going to find a good answer to this problem (besides going to Outlook Lite :) ?