Need help with Outlook Express

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I need a little help understanding Outlook Express. I'm trying to do an unattended installation. I've found a few scripts and articles, but in order to comprehend what I'm reading, I need to better understand OE's architecture. And it appears that some of the recommendations and procedures are overly complex.

I believe there are four areas that need to be addressed for a fully configured unattended installation: mail folders, address book, accounts, and mail rules.

I found accounts in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Accounts\Accounts and I assume that if I recreate those entries after installation, all of my mail accounts will be ready to go. Check.

I found the address book file and was able to move it to my D: drive and change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name to point to the new location. That works so I should be able to do that after installation also. Check.

Help needed here --> Using OE's maintenance tab, I was able to move my mail folders to the D: drive as well, and OE sees them. That drive gets backed up every night so it's a safer place to keep the mail and I avoid the long ID serial number. What I can't figure out is where is that new path stored? Unlike the address book, I don't find a registry entry containing the path to the mail folders. OE knows where they are, so the path must be stored somewhere. I need to be able to change it after installation so that OE uses my D: drive stores rather than the defaults it will create on its own.

And here --> Finally, there are the mail rules. I found some registry settings but they don't make a lot of sense and I don't know if they are complete in terms of having everything needed to recreate the rules. Is it possible to recreate these entries in the new installation and have all my rules in effect? Are there some files I need to copy as well?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

FWIW, my system (XP Home SP2) has only one user (me as admin), one OE Identity, and several email accounts. I use OE rather than Outlook because it works and because Outlook gave me fits trying to read newsgroups in the past.

Thanks.

Ray