Kendall,

There are many good free email programs. I use several for different email addresses. You can download one and tell it all of the POP information from your email provider and start opening it in there. I don't use Outlook much (except at work where I have no choice). I like Eudora and Pegasus, and I also use Mozilla Thunderbird.

I'd try a few things in the Outlook program first. Under the "HELP" menu try the "Detect and Repair" option, and while you're at it, click on the updates and see if there is anything helpful to download and put in place. In other email programs there was a feature to un-BinHex messages but I don't see that now. Poke around the help menu and see if anything looks likely. You can also search the online Microsoft Knowledge base for problems to do with Outlook.

SRS