Thank you Mike -- I did a hybrid of what you were talking about and it works perfectly.

I didn't really have time to figure out the Quick Steps, so they may do the exact thing I did, but this is what worked for me:

(1) I set up the rules that I wanted, (example: I set a rule to automatically filter incoming mails to specific folders)

(2) I turned off the rules as you suggested

(3) Developed (copied) a macro to enable me to press a button to automatically run all the rules and it will sort them to the folders.

Below is where I got the information.

To make the macro step by step, I went to:
http://pyrocam.com/how-to-run-outloo...from-a-button/

(for some reason his script didn't work for me, so I went to another site -- see below -- and took the script from his site and it worked perfectly)

Here's where I took the script from (see Sosipater's comment about half-way down)
http://community.spiceworks.com/topi...n-outlook-2010

Hope this helps and thank you for your help as well -- I don't know why I didn't even think to turn off the rules.