Hi and thankyou for replying
I have found a way to keep the fields by making the default field view infopath in outlooks customise default views but the problem still remains that Outlook decides to drop the associated template and the contents of the fields are not shown in the Outllok 2007 view.
If i could force a way to make outlook never drop its associated template i'd be laughing. Have noticed from searching posts there are a few more people here and on the net who are experiencing the same problem.