Raymond,
I checked everything you suggested, won't know until I shut down and start up. I have Outlook 2007 and use it on Vista and XP, both machines have the same message and slow down at start up.
If I use the Live account to send it will sometimes hang up and send the same message many times to each reciepient. It will show as 'sending' in the out box. It gives the message that it is still sending. Makes me look like spammer sometimes. I tried the fix that was suggested from this forum and it isn't working.