I've been fighting this battle myself for the last week or so. I read your fix and thought I wonder...so I logged into AOL via the web portal and proceeded to move all the mail from their current folders into newly created folders of the same name. It apparently worked. All my folders are now syncing in outlook except for the inbox. So I created a new folder via the web portal and then created a filter to send all email coming into the aol address to forward to the new folder. Not exactly ideal but I'll take it for now. You are the only person who's post I've seen that worked!! I just wanted to thank you for being such a genius!