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Outlook 2003 .pst file convert to Outlook 2002 format - Please help

I have a PST file from Outlook 2003 that has about 180MB of e-mail with attachments.  Outlook 2002 does not recognize the format of the .pst file.  When I export to .csv from 2003 and import into 2002 I lose all the attachments.  Any ideas?

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Glad it worked for you.
Happy to have helped.
Thanx!
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Thanks sirbounty, you got me pointed in the right direction.  Here's what I ended up doing - for others benefit.

If you want to access an Outlook 2003 .pst file from a different computer that has an earlier version of Outlook installed, or if you installed Outlook 2003 and have decided to remove it and to use Outlook 2002 or earlier, you must change your .pst file back to an ANSI format. To do so, follow these steps:

Start Outlook 2003.
On the File menu, click Data File Management, and then click Add.
Click Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File (PST).
Click OK.
Name the .pst file, or click OK to accept the default name.
Click OK.
Click Close.
Click Folder List at the bottom of the navigation pane.
In the navigation pane, you will now see your new .pst file that you named in step 5.
Drag the .pst file information from your existing Outlook 2003 folders to the new .pst file that you created.

Note If you have e-mail messages or other items that contain UNICODE characters, they do not appear in the new .pst file that you created.
You can now use the .pst file that you created in the earlier versions of Outlook.
It would be nice to figure out how to change the default in Outlook 2003 back to ANSI instead of the Unicode Format. This way you would not have to do this cumbersome procedure each time you want to put the .pst file in your other computer.

Joe