Can't see new GAL

[unclerico]

Server 2003 Standard/Exchange 2003 Standard
Outlook 2003/Outlook 2007

I have a request from the Accounting head in my location to publish 40 distribution lists for the accounting department to use. All members of these DL's are external to the organization so I will be creating about 100 or so new contacts. I know that I can create the new Contacts, add them to the DL, and then hide them from the GAL, but I would also like to hide the DLs from the GAL.

To get around this I have created a new GAL to test with complete with a different LDAP query. The Preview works fine as all of the test DLs that I have created are not visible. For testing purposes I denied my user account Open Address List permissions on the Default Global Address List and explicitly permitted my user account on the new Test GAL. I have rebuilt the RUS and exited Outlook but the new Test GAL is not visible. To top it off I still am able to open the Default GAL which I shouldn't since I denied myself Open Address List rights. I have also logged off and logged back on.

What am I missing here?? Thanks.

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[unclerico]

I use my Outlook client in Cached mode. When I change it to be used Online, then the correct GAL is shown. When I change it back to cached mode the incorrect GAL is shown. I've deleted all .oab files in my local profile and then opened Outlook in cached mode and the correct GAL is shown. Once I download the address book the incorrect information is shown.

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[unclerico]

I deleted the Default Offline Address Book and the default Global Address List completely. I assigned the new OAB to my store and waited a day for the maintenance processes to run. The new OAB was created successfully. When I open Outlook in online mode the correct information is shown, but when I change it to cached mode the old information is still downloaded. How can that be when the Default OAB no longer exists?? Where is this information coming from??

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