Microsoft Outlook restarts immediately after closing, will not close

I'm not quite sure what prompted this, but Outlook is going haywire. About a week ago, I was trying to setup Outlook to retrieve my email from a pop3 account. It didn't work so I closed the program and it came back up immediately. If I switched to a different window, Outlook would cover up the window I just clicked on. It also kept giving me an error message when I tried to get into options or preferences stating another window was open when there wasn't. I tried closing it both normally and by ending the process and it still came right back up by itself. Now, a few days later, it is not taking over any other windows but it still starts automatically and restarts every time I close it. I also looked at startup settings and nothing there, either. Any ideas? I cannot find ANYTHING about this on the net and have looked through the registry to no avail. Help?

 

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MS Outlook 2003
Windows XP Professional SP2

kthx.

 

Are you able to reinstall Outlook?

 

Can you go to a system restore point prior to the problem? Given it's only a week or two old, you should have one.:wave:wave