Outlook 2002 on Vista: You need to get Office XP Service pack 3.  If you don’t get the service pack, Outlook 2002 will no be able to send emails, you can only recieved them.

How to protect your data from an Operating System Crash.

Most people have their Data and Operating System on the same partition, this is a flaw.  If your Operating System crashes, you will likey lose all you data.  Place your Data on another partition or a second drive in your system.  If your operating system crashes, you just need to restore or rebuild the partition of your operating system.  Once that is done you can access your data on the other partition or drive without any impact.