Outlook 2007 - Followup Folders Error

First: I'm using Outlook 2007 on Windows XP.

I had three messages marked for followup (I really like this feature). Through my own stupid error, I managed to corrupt the PST datastore. I ran SCANPST, opened Outlook, and most of my messages were there. However, all of the messages I received in the past two weeks were gone (including the three I had flagged). Luckily, I had a backup datastore and was able to attach it and recover all of my missing messages (whew!).

Now, however, I have three items in my followup folder that point to messages that do not exist. When I click those items, I get an error dialog that states the message cannot be found. That is fine; I expect it after the near miss crash I just recovered from. Unfortunately, I cannot remove those items from the flagged folder. If I right-click and choose "delete" nothing happens. I cannot clear the flag since the item does not exist. I attempted flagging the same message after I recovered it and then removing the flag (hoping Outlook would remove both the good and bad items from the flagged folder). That did not help. I ran SCANPST on the datastore and that did not help. Now, I'm pretty much out of ideas.

How do I remove an item from the flagged items folder if it is pointing to a message that does not exist?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

--George Self