Hey
For anyone interested - that little program outlook backup pro worked really well. it also copied a bunch of windows settings too - perfect free 15 day trail just needed for 24 hours while i copied everything across!
Only slight problem was that outlook donwloaded all my messages from my yahoo account again - I dont let outlook delete them off the server so they are there when I log from the web when away from home. not a big problem really.
Cheers for all your help,
Cocksy