This is Jondee , if you read the above post , you know what this is about . My post here is to say after several shots over a long period of time at getting an answer to HOW TO STOP the message "compact messages" finally found the answer after TONS of bs . Just incase you are interested

pcprop.com/webpage_files/nocompact.pdf   and follow the directions EXACTLY , DO NOT SKIP ANYTHING and your compact messages problem is over . As I said I have XP-SP3 ,don't know if this will work on anything else .   Good Luck

Thanks Arielle ,I checked fo make sure that empty" delete items" box on close was not checked .