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Regarding your outlook express 6 problem if you are running win98se and the latest edition of outlook express 6 one of the problems might be that that version does not work properly with win98se. It seems that the latest version of outlook expresss 6 does something to the comctl32.dll that makes it unstable for other programs to use.
Also there seems to be a problem running avast mail protection wizard and outlook express. It seems that the mail protection wizard changes something in outlook making it unsuable by isp email address though a hotmail account for receiving will still work.
I find it strange that in the mail protection wizard for i.p number it uses 127.0.0.1 if I remeber correctly that i.p number is a loop back and is only use for testing. Please correct me if I am wrong.