I love threads like this....
They're akin to the IE problem posts with reply after reply of "Get Firefox; IE sucks!"
You're comfortable with Outlook Express and changing programs can be a bit intimidating. So, instead of suggesting another program (which you should...switch to something other than OE, which is rife with humbuggery) I will direct you to some websites.
Since the description of the error is so very vague and there seems to be quite a few errors with that particular dll mentioned, there are a few different pages with vastly different problems. For what it's worth, my money is on this
one.
But if that doesn't work....
There's this
one
and this
one
and finally, this
one
Good luck