MapiMail Association in Outlook 2000

OK Guys....here is an issue that I have and desperately need to get resolved.

I have a user who changed the association of the mapimail file in Outlook 2000 from the default "Unknown application" to Outlook. He did this because his "send to" shortcut was linking him to outlook express(the default email handler at the time) and he needed it to send through outlook. I have scoured the web and I can not repair it. I tried deleting the shortcut and re-adding a text file in the send to folder named "Mail Reciepient.MAPIMail" but it doesn't work because the association is still to Outlook. I can't copy it from another computer and paste it in so I am now at a loss.

Any help would be great.....
Gameguru

dunno.... repair office via the media?

The file associations are held in the registry... in theory, try this, back up the reg, then pull the keys for the file type and then run repair for office/outlook.