From exchange to pop3, exported pst - imported.. contacts appear but n

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I moved our office from exchange to a hosted pop3 service. For everybody sexchange folders, i exported all the data to pst.

Then i created new outlook profiles with that pst, configured the pop3, and everything works fine sort of.

all contacts are in the users outlook if the 'navigation plane' or whatever it is on the left hand side, if they goto Contacts all their contacts are there.

but if they open up a new email, and press TO - it should show their contacts, and they are not there.

any ideas?

I have even tried to re-import the contacts into the pst, and it imports, but still doesn't appear when creating new email messages and pressing "to"

- i get no errors.

- i have tried to reinstall the MAPI address book (uninstall + reinstall) - same results, no error, just they aren't there.

- When i try to create a new contact - they appear in the TO field in new messages ....