I'm trying to sync my Motorola Q to my HP laptop, but apparently the Active Sync doesn't support Outlook Express, so I keep getting the message "either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request." Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and switch to regular Outlook.
Questions:
1) is it free / are there free versions out there? (I don't have Microsoft Office)
2) how do I convert messages from outlook express to outlook?

You can download a free trial or take on online test drive of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

There is a simple import feature in outlook to import outlook express data files.