Has anyone else encountered the frustration of the automatic update alert telling you to update what has already been updated?

If so how do you kill it?

My fear is the last time this happened it was a warning of a major Outlook crash. A catastrophe where I lost thousands of email but more importantly where my MS Office profile was destroyed. Created a monster of problem because the "deceased" profile would not expire.

It took 4 days to get back access to all Office components. Almost pushed back me into Windows. Now I just avoid Outlook for Mac completely.