Backing up folders in Entourage

Hi. I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post questions about Entourage but it's the closest I can find . . .
I want to reformat my hard drive and upgrade from OSX.2 to OSX.4.
When I reinstall Entourage, how do I make sure that I can keep the mailboxes/folders I've set up myself and their contents?
My mail is set up as a Pop account and all messages are still on the ISP sever. I've backed up the "Microsoft User Data" folder - will this be enough to tell Entourage where everything goes once it's re-installed?
Or should I save every message in separate folders that mirror the ones I've set up in Entourage as well?
1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Ah! Of course - thanks. That seems to work.
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