Outlook 2003 Address Book

[Wijono]

I am using Outlook 2003 on WinXP SP 2 and Exchange Server.

I use "Contacts" as my Address Book and the setting is as follows:

Addressing:

Show this address list first:

Contacts

Keep personal addresses in:

Contacts

When sending mail, check names using these address lists in the following order:

Contacts

That means, I set it that way that I only use Contacts as my Outlook Address Book, and the Contacts is part of my Personal Folder which is in my local hard disk.

Furthermore, I also have disabled the "Display the Online Status item in the person name Smart Tag menu" in Group Policy.

Nevertheless, when I click the Address Book for the first time (after starting Outlook), it takes long time to open, it tries somehow to access Exchange server, but the consecutive opening of the Address Book takes almost no time.

What could be the cause of that annoying behavior?