Microsoft Outlook 2007 Startup Issue

I've done some research on this issue yet can't seem to find anything that solves my problem.

I have a computer that has Microsoft Office 2003 on it (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook). I only upgraded Outlook to 2007 and left the rest at 2003.

On startup, Outlook 2007 looks for the Microsoft Exchange Server which I don't remember setting up unless it's an integrated part of the software. Anyway, Outlook complains that because it can't find the server, it can't load my default mail folders and then closes automatically.

I've tried everything humanly possible to solve this. I've manually removed the config files so that Outlook could reset them and that didn't work. I found a help article on Microsoft's webstite and that didn't help any. Now I'm pretty much out of ideas. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Not sure if you have seen this site...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc742569.aspx

Also when you are editing an email in MS Outlook, it actually uses MS Word to do the work, the reason for this is MS Word has a much larger tool set then the one built into MS Outlook (MS Outlook does have its own for those that don't have word, but its not so good).

Unfortunately, MS Outlook 2007 cannot use MS Word 2003 for this. So even when you get MS Outlook started you will get stuck either with MS Outlook's word processing engine, or with MS Outlook trying to use MS Word 2003 which it can't....

In short you have to upgrade MS Word as well...