Urlee...I do all that sort of stuff with my Outlook Express also....I have Outlook Express on one computer (and love it) and have Windows Live on the other and it's no fun at all... maybee, I am so sorry and sympathize with you as I felt horrible about WLM as you could tell at the start of this thread. Now I have to confess I like it as well (almost) as I do Outlook Express as I am finding (after learning) I can do the same as I do in OE. There are a few differences just done in a different way.

The Windows Mail contacts should be in the user root folder (by name). On my Vista system, click on Start, the Start Menu appears and the menu extension appears to the right. The root folder (by name) is the first entry on the top. Or, On the c:/ drive: Users>user root folder (by name)>Contacts DA

if you click on one of the other options like BCC do they all show up there? is it just the TO field?

I guess I should have said, Windows Live Mail; is it a different program ? Anyway, there is no "file" area that I can find. It is a very busy address type bar at the top of the program and very confusing. I think I may have done it, but in the mean time, I lost all of the mail in my in box on my server. ..........very frustrating. Windows Live mail does NOT want one to navigate away from their program and makes it very difficult to not make them the default mail program. salbwil