I was hoping to get a more elegant solution, in fact, one that would allow me to delete the defunct folder that had been the default, but a work-around will have to do.

My lousy solution is to just move the message after it is created. It works, but I am forced to keep the old default folder, since I can't get Outlook to recognize the new default for this process - it does recognize the new one as the default for everything else.

Please, if any experts run across this and can help me fix Outlook's understanding of the default folder, I would appreciate it greatly.