hi,
this is the main problem:
i cannot import emails from outlook's Sent mail folder. an attempt to import from this folder makes an error "Acess vioalation at address 0040B10B in module "thebat.exe". Read of address 8004010F".
Did you try using "scanpst.exe" which is delivered with Outlook? You describe an error which I had (more or less) some month ago and using scanpst solved the problem.
HTH,
Mirko