Why didn;t my Outlook Express info save?

[Daliman]

Last night I spent about 3 hours entering information into OE like addresses and family information/etc, but most of it never saved, even though I know it was still in there when I'd reopen the contact while OE was open. I had probably 35 characters or so of info under each child's name, and I know when I was done with each contact I hit either enter or OK. I haven't done any deleting since then, and now this AM when I do a quick test-etry and then close OE, when I reopen it, the info is still there. GRRRRRR........