On 1 Mar 2006, at 20:36, Jan Melichar wrote: > Entourage has been running without any problems for a number of > years but now when I click (highlight) any item in the list in the > top pane that item disappears from the list while the message > remains in the bottom pane and so becomes inaccessible the moment > one moves to another item... Sounds like you have a view filter on - I've seen this before when someone had View > Unread Messages Only set in Outlook (or Outlook Express). I don't know if that's an option in Entourage, although it doesn't jibe with you having trashed the preferences - did you trash ALL of them? Stroller.