Active Directory accountExpires and pwdLastSet property using JAVA

Hi all!
I´m trying to transform the accountExpires and pwdLastSet property retrieved from Active Directory to a Date/Time object. The value returned is a weird long integer that can´t be converted. Does anyone know something about this?
I´m using Java 2 SDK 1.4.2.
I am trying to do the above for accountExpires and pwdLastSet attributes in AD
Thanks

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[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555936]
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