No fix is planned, no firm workarounds seem to cure them all.
In your case, McAfee is implicated as well which only muddies the waters more. Why not scrap McAfee as well as Office 97 off the machine and try again with just the Office CD?
Bob
I'm running Windows XP and have recently found a problem with MS outlook. It had been resting in a folder for unused icons on my desktop. When I try to open the Outlook 97, I get two different messages. I'm hoping you can throw some light on this. I did try to reinstall Outlook from my Offic 97 CD.
1. The add-in "c:\progra~1\mcaffee.com\vso\outscan.dll" could not be installed or loaded. You may be out of memory, out of system resources or a missing dll file.
2. Ordinal 36 could not be located in the dynamic link library MAPI32.dll

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