outlook 2002 hangs on startup

[gas55au]

I have just transferred my mail from Outlook Express into Outlook. The import worked fine. Then I began getting a message when I tried to send an email saying Word -An unexpected error has occurred. Microsoft Word opens fine by itself but when it is called from Outlook the message appears. Now whenever I try and open Outlook I just get the splash screen and it locks up the computer. Ocassionally it gives me a message about starting Outlook in Safe Mode which works fine but when you close it and try opening it in Normal mode it hangs again. I tried running a scanpst on Outlook.pst however that found no errors.
Any suggestions.

[BipolarBill]

Try Office Update:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx

Don't forget about Detect and Repair in the Help menu.

[Steve R Jones]

How large is your .pst file? If you're close to the 2 gig limit you'll get all sorts of errors.