Could be. If you get it to work with Open Office, then you can go back and troubleshoot whether it's the powerpoint viewer or Outlook causing the problems.

To make sure it isn't outlook you can try Eudora or Thunderbird. I recently installed Thunderbird and it's working like a hooker in Hanover.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/show...6&postcount=12
A post where I installed Thunderbird with Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and TZmail support.