[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Both of my Deleted Items files are completely empty. However, in the Drafts mbx file, there is "The Lady of Shalott" poem, perfectly intact and set apart, followed by yards and yards of gibberish. Interesting!

[Nataku X]

That's not good! :-( I run win2k, so that may be the reason why our Outlook Express programs work differently?

Anyway, can't help you anymore, you may wanna search in the Inbox.mbx or Sent Items.mbx if you haven't compressed folders recently, that's it!