I learned something about nod32. The ekrn service is stuck on "starting".
I uninstalled nod32. Outlook still dies immediately.
When I reinstalled nod32, I got version 9. It crashes immediately with "Windows host process (rundll32) has stopped working".
I now have nod32 uninstalled, but am using MSE. I want to concentrate on Outlook. I found that Outlook runs okay when booting up with safe mode with networking.
Maybe I should just not install that windows update.