Outlook and mailbox not closed properly

I get this way too often…

I used to blame X1…  But I’ve stopped using that in favor of Windows Search and Xnobi…

Xnobi is nice but it’s jacked up my Outlook a couple times.  It can be slow and doesn’t handled mail ‘on behalf’ of someone very well.   It is thoroughly confused by email from RT.

But back to the issue at hand.

I quit outlook  (alt-f4) or choose exit or choose the close box.  All legitimate ways to end the application.   It appears to quit gracefully.   Yet when I launch it the next time, I get this and the disk activity brings my machine to a crawl.

(yes I’ve verified that there is no Outlook.exe process before launching)

I generally undock my XP based laptop, put it to sleep and move it from work to home and back.  About every 3rd or fourth day it will hang.  I expect that.   When I have time I’ll actually shut it down, but start-up from Zero is very painful because of all the server/services running on it (mySQL, MS SQL, etc, etc.).

This morning I closed all my apps and ‘shut er’ down.  At work, same crap when outlook restarted.

This really needs to be fixed.   It reminds me of the Visual Source Safe 6.0, which routinely corrupted the database. 

I never understood why MS had a tool to fix the database/files after the corruption but couldn’t just fix the bug that jacked up the files in the first place.

Perhaps there’s a mailbox maintenance tool I can run manually, that would make this whole process even better.

As another frame of reference, this happens on my other laptop too, only with Vista SP1…  If it hibernates, the file will be jacked up when it wakes up.