OK I have ruled out Ccleaner as my problem (I think). I had it loaded and have run it on my machine at home, which can send and recieve assigned Tasks. I have turned off firewalls, anti-spy, unloaded Office, reinstalled office, etc. etc. I still haven't found my problem. I have narrowed it down to my local ISP or Norton Corporate AV 10.0 I'm actually leaning towards my ISP, but they don't think so.. Tonight I will take my laptop home and try Assigning Tasks connect to DSL (different from my cable ISP in the office) so hopefully that will give me some more insights as to what is going on. I do have Win 98 se and MS office 2000 on my home computer and XP / MS office 2003 on my lap top so it could still be something to do with 2003 or XP I guess. Anyway thanks for all the help and Ccleaner gets removed from the suspects list (at least for now)... wish me luck!!!! Oh and here is what Microsoft on how to find the temp file for outlook although I did find it with the previous instructions:
"The folder C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKxx is actually used to save temporary file when you open attachment from Outlook. It does not save task. So this folder should not related to the problem. Anyway, if you want to look at this folder, I can tell you a method to access it.
1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type regedit and click OK. This will launch registry editor.
3. Expand the registry tree on the left hand pane and open following entry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security
4. Now on the right hand pane, you should see an item called OutlookSecureTempFolder
5. Open this item and you should see a folder path. Copy this path.
6. Click Start -> Run
7. Paste the path into the box and click OK. It should open this folder.
Hope this helps. "