Bug in MS Outlook 2007?

I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 e-mail client to manage my e-mails, and noticed a strange thing today.

I had opened multiple PST files since I wanted to search for some older mails. The 'Search' option was set to search in the current folder only. In this case, I noticed that a part of the 'Search' functionality was not working properly. If I searched for a mail containing a particular word (or a clause) in a single folder within one PST file, the search worked fine. It returned to me a list of all mails containing the specified search string in the selected folder. However, at the end of the search results, Outlook displayed a message similar to the following:

'Did you fimd what you were searching for?
Cick here to search in all mail folders'

Now, this is where I noticed a defect. Irrespective of which folder in which PST file I had selected initially, Outlook always searched for mails containing the search term in all folders in my active (currently configured to receive mails) PST file. I believe that Outlook should have attempted to locate mails containing the search string, in this case, in all folders within all open PST files (and not only in the currently active one).

After experiencing this issue, I set the Search option in Outlook to search in all folders. Now, when I searched for mails containing a particular word or clause, Outlook searched for it only in all the folders of currently active PST file. Thus, irrespective of the folder or PST file I had opened and selected for search, results were displayed only from folders in the currently active PST file.

I believe that this is a bug in Outlook 2007 and needs to be fixed. What are your thoughts on this observation? Also, if you can try the same on Outlook 2003 and share your observations, that would be great.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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