Frustrations, major and minor

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First for some history...

I recently purchased a new compy (a TabletPC, natch ;) ). So it needed all the goodies installed.

I decided to install Office 2007, since I have a legal copy (no, no Vista on this box. Yet). I've got to say that Office 2k7 is pretty bad-assed. It's a total redesign, and they really did an awesome job, especially in regards to designing a simple yet powerful GUI.

Praises having been sung (okay, hummed), time for my first *major* frustration...

Outlook broke on me and I can't figure out how to fix it :( For the first few days it worked *perfectly*. All of a sudden, however, it no longer wants to send mail!

I have a whole stack of mails sitting in my Outbox. No matter what I do, they just sit there. I've tried changing which mail account they should be sending through, killing and recreating account info, rebooting, clearing the mails, and starting over, *everything*.

Normally I would look forward to something like this as a research and troubleshooting challenge. Right now, however, I have a few *very* important mailings stacking up in there (arrangements with my Irish Wolfhound breeder, for instance.).

Another annoyance, though it's not actually an Office issue, is the new "Post to Blog" feature. Yes, you can now blog *directly* from Word (or, more importantly and excitingly for me as a TabletPC user, blog directly from OneNote). Unless, that is, your blog is on Blogger.

The Office team worked fairly closely with Google (who now owns Blogger) in getting this feature working [with] Blogger 2 Beta. Well, between then and the official release of Blogger2, *Google* broke the functionality.

So, yes... you can now edit and post blog entries straight from Word (or OneNote). Sadly, *I* can't, and there's nothing I can do about it. Which leaves me stuck posting the way I'm doing now. which is a *major* pain in the a$$.

--le sigh--