i found all of the others but cant find the address book.( we have the whole hard drive copied to another hard drive so we can play with the files.)
I found them in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{310811FF-5D3C-47E8-963C-5A4F116067D0}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
On my server it has contacts on a data base but not on the win2k pro box there isnt one.
Thanks for all your help alittlebitnumb and everybody else.
Please keep the help coming.

Originally posted here by X=-FakeBoy-=X
This may be off the subject, but I had a cooling problem where I would get a system up, and it would run for a couple seconds and either freeze or reboot. Unless I left it down for a couple minutes, every time I would reboot it would self reset. Is this similiar to your problem?
kinda but it is only doing this to me on booting the OS. I am reinstalling now and it has been up and hasent restarted or froze yet.
My thought that it might be hardware detection and something during that faze kills it.

hey all. I got it to work now it seems like it was only the OS decided to blow up. Thanks for everyones help.