HELP! NEED AN OUTLOOK EXPERT

Hello,

I'm a newbie here, so forgive my coming back again after I got my "DMA reverting to PIO" issue fixed for good I hope. It's on a new computer with new WD 500GB 7200 rpm main C drive, (the fast Gigabyte H55 USB3 motherboard run computer was custom built just 2 months ago for me by someone I knew but who has now moved!) It has stayed on at 222.2 MB/sec Burst Speed and Average Read of 79.8 MB/s. when I use "HD Tach" utility to check it now for two days. I hope that means it is fixed. It surely runs fast now, with alot of memory to spare and no issues at all.

AS FOR THE OUTLOOK ISSUE: I am having a bad and frustrating time in that I have Outlook set to archive my mail, (and I get alot of mail that I feel I should keep) but I must have the settings wrong or something, because when my friend built my computer and did the re-install of MS Office Professional 2003, he saw two archive (.pst I believe they are) folders, and he combined them so there would be only one. Things stayed fine with ONE archive folder showing in my folder tree on the left folders window view until auto archive asked me today if I wanted it to archive my folders and I said yes of course. After that, now I have two archive folders, both with the same folders basically, but they are not identical. I could have set different folder destinations for the archived mail (the default and one other by mistake) I suppose, but the bottom line is HOW can I figure this out and set it to the default folder and get rid of the second folder?

I have looked on MSofts Outlook 2003 database about managing mail, etc., but it doesn't address duplicate or two archive folders. I just need and want one, even if the frequency of archiving various folders is different, I need to have them all going to the same archive folder, which I assume should be the default one that Office sets up when Office/Outlook is installed.

Any step-by-step help in solving this would be greatly appreciated. I am really frustrated now, and the computer guy I trusted is gone and unavailable to help me.

Thank you very much in advance!

Dennis