Getting Outlook away from Exchange

i've got a machine with outlook 2003 installed and outlook express being used for email. i need to migrate everything to outlook which should be a simple procedure but it won't let me.

problem:
the machine was previously set up to connect to an exchange server.

Symptoms:
when i try to open outlook it complains it cannot connect to the exchange server and then closes the program.

also, when i try to export from express it also complains about the absence of an exchange server.


question:
is there a way to reconfigure outlook and outlook express to ditch the exchange server? also, there is nothing currently in outlook that needs to be saved.

Hi

Have you tried uninstalling them and reinstall them with the correct settings.?

Regards