Miscellaneous Questions for Outlook Gurus

Will be impressed if anyone can get all of these. I'm using Outlook 2007 (in
Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro via Parallels)...

1) It seems that e-mail search presents two options, "current folder" and
"all folders." Is there a way to search/select "current folder and all
subfolders"?

2) Often times when I switch from Mail to Calendar or Mail to Contacts, and
then switch back to Mail, I find that some of my e-mail account groups have
been collapsed. This seems to happen for no apparent reason and gets rather
frustrating. It's an issue I had with Outlook 2003, as well. Any solutions?

3) When I create a new appointment in Calendar and attempt to choose a
Category, a whole bunch of random categories appear on the list (not sure how
these were created, must somehow be done automatically). There are really
only two or three categories that I use, and it would be great if these were
all that appeared, or at least if these appeared at the top of the list (so
that I wouldn't have to dig into "all categories" and then track them down).
Any recommendations?

4) How do I prevent the ruler from popping up when I'm composing a new
message? It's annoying when I happen to pass my pointer through the top of
the composition window and it pops up!

5) What's the keyboard shortcut for cycling through open windows in Outlook?
Is there a secret trick when doing this on a MacBook Pro via Parallels in
Coherence View?

Good luck! ; )


And THANKS,
Alex