My Outlook has been stable since I kicked at it several times yesterday. I am still getting occasional spurious “outlook.ost is in use” messages — well one of them — since then, but my Outbox hasn’t frozen up again. Yet.
Hoping the problem is solved, or at least quiesced until January.
(And, if not, Outlook Web Access 2003 is a quantum leap over the 2000 version, as much as the latter was over the native NT version. Though it still doesn’t work well with Firefox, of course.)