The KB article does note that you could lose OE messages and addy book. If you use OE, there is a clicky in the clickety article to tell you how to back things up before you create the new profile. Some other Office programs can share the OE address book, so you might want to search for *.wab and back it up - if it's there - even if you don't use OE.

Before you create the new profile, you should open OE and run a Folder|Compact All, do a file Export and export the addy book to someplace safe elsewhere on your computer, and then copy the email folder somewhere. (Search for *.dbx if you have trouble finding the email messages. I usually jump up one level and just copy the whole Outlook Express folder, since the import really works best if you make sure you have all of the subfolders in the message data base.)

After the new identity is set up, logged on as the newby, you can import both the address book (.wab) and the email (.dbx) from where you stored them. You may still have to reset some email things like what "from" name appears on messages, but that should be fairly easy.

Actually, it's a good idea to do the same Address Book and email backups on a fairly regular basis anyway. If you might want to be able to import the addy book into other browsers or email programs (like perhaps Outlook) it's a good idea to keep a reasonably current backup address book as a .csv (comma separated variables) file, along with the "normal" OE .wab format, since the .csv format is easier for some other programs to import.

John