You are not weird. I cannot imagine 1400 pages of email in my Inbox. That would drive me nuts.
I use the GTD Outlook Add-in from NetCentrics
http://gtdsupport.netcentrics.com/home/ to help me with my Getting Things Done implementation. From any email I can delegate, defer, create a task, file it, or connect it to a project. It's very helpful. I have files set up to mimic my active projects to hold all email related to that project.
For searching all my email, I use Lookout, but it seems to be unavailable.
-James