Outlook 2010 Start-up Problems

I bought a new PC last month with Office 2010 Pro and all was working fine until today.  I am on a business consulting engagement w/a company and tried to set up an Outlook email account to access my new Exchange ID on their corp domain.  Things
didn't go well, and now when I try to open Outlook I can't.  I get the following message:
"Cannot open your default email folders. Outlook cannot start because a dat file to send and receive messages cannot be found. Check your setting in Microsoft Outlook profile. In Microsoft Windows, click the Start button, and then click Control Panel. Click
User Accounts, and then click Mail.  Click Show Profiles, select this profile, and then click properties."
I did all that, ensured that my mail accounts and files were okay (went through "Repair" and all is good), but still can't get in.  I also tried the Office Repair option, but that didn't help either.
My guess is that during the process of trying to set up an Exchange connection something got hosed.  But there is no exchange email account that I can see. 
Any thoughts?

Hi
Thank you for using
Microsoft Office for IT Professionals Forums.
Since you have repaired the Office program but the issue persist, you can consider to create a new outlook profile refers to:
To create a new email profile in Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003, follow these steps:
Click
Start > control panel>User Accounts>
Mail
In the
Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles.
On the
General tab, under When starting Microsoft Office Outlook, use this profile, click
Prompt for a profile to be used, and then click Add.
In the
Profile Name box, type the name that you want to use for the new email profile, and then click
OK.
In the
E-mail Accounts dialog box, click Add a new e-mail account, and then click
Next.
Click the appropriate server type for your new email account, and then click
Next.
Type your account information in the required boxes, and then click
Next.
Click
Finish, and then click OK.
If it’s working, You can add previous mail accounts and data files to the new profile.
More detail information from here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918
Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can
do for you, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely
Rex Zhang
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