This is more of a plea for help then anything, but I do have an intelligent point in the end about the whole thing and me very definitely wanting to go to something more standardized and NEVER use another frivkh,fgjd,h ...

Outlook Express and Outlook seem to have different addressbook formats. I believe I started my address book in outlook 2000, but its possible an update of express crept on and defaulted itself or something or other, who knows.. for some reason I can't seem to open up my contacts of info that I have assembled during the last year.

I can't tell you how disstressing that is.
Its a .wab file of 180k in size, and the only
thing I can come up with is that it might be
corrupted.. I even searched MS's knowledgebase
about the issue to discover that they basicly
point you to a 3rd party in order to deal with
.WAB files and suggested instead about exporting
to comma delimited files, which honestly I should have known better to do.. but I figured whats wrong with the .WAB file? Surely a frkin multi-billion dollar company can make a decent save and secure contact program that one can rely on for ones data.. no?? Appearently NO.

Eh. Anyway. So for anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, I would REALLY love to be able to open that file, and would shower anyone with praises for the answer. This is like the first time in a long time I'm dealing with potentially damaging data loss. :(

But it raises an interesting point for discussion about all this crap happening in the first place too I think. :)

Sincerely,
-Matthew