Entourage Database to Mail

Hello everyone.
Although there are many Entourage to Mail transferring questions around, mine is pretty specific and I have not found the advice anywhere.
I just bought a new Mac, leaving the old one at home in the Czech Republic and coming to the UK with my Backup HD only. I have all the data working perfectly, BUT... I used Microsoft Office with Entourage before. Now I decided I would switch to iWork, which also meant switching to Mail.
So I have only the database in the Microsoft User Data folder without having Entourage installed. How can I transfer my email database (I can sort of do without the contacts) to Mail? Or how to create mbox from the existing Entourage database? Any ideas??
Thanks very much for any help.

Mail's Import option requires Entourage to be open in order to import the data. Since the database is a unique format there's no direct way to extract the data unless you can find a third-party utility that does not require Entourage in order to transfer the data. You can search for such utilities at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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