Out of office assistance in Outlook 2003 disabled?!

Did somehow your “Out of office” assistant get disabled? When you click on Tools>Out of Office Assistant do you get an error message: 
 “The command is not available. See the program documentation…blah blah blah” 
 There is a registry fix that you can do, but it doesnt always work. 
 Simple fix. Outlook likes to disable add-in’s (yes the OOO is an add-in) if it thinks it is causing a problem. 
 Fix: 
 In Outlook go to Help, select > about Microsoft Outlook. Select disabled items. Out of office assistant is in the dialouge box, enable it. 
 Tada!