As a workaround one could create an transforms file (.mst) with the custom installation wizard that comes in the Office 2000 resource kit.
In one of the steps in the custom installation wizard you can put the name of the mailbox and the name of the mail server among other stuff like what services it should support. If put %username% a in as the username and the name of your mail server all is working great. If you have more then one mail server you could create separate mst files for these servers.

You can apply the MST file to setup.exe by typing
 Code:
setup.exe transforms=filename.mst


This way profiles are created without any questions when the user opens outlook for the first time.

Ok, this not the most desirable way but up until now I cannot find anything useful about newporf giving problems on WinXP.
_________________________
Mart

- Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.