Export Markers w/ SMPTE Timecode (subtitling-related)

I am about to scream with frustration.
I have a nice, long sequence on the timeline that needs to be subtitled. I've spent the last two days setting markers, extending them until the speaker's finished speaking, and transcribed what they said into the comments field. These markers, in turn, were going to be exported (as an XML file), I'd do a little bit of `grep`ping and BBediting, and I'd end up with an STL subtitle file that I could feed to DVD Studio Pro (see Chapter 13, "Creating Subtitles", on p.456 of DVD Studio Pro's manual).
That was the idea. The problem is that although I have the markers' start and end times in the exported XML file, Final Cut Pro exported the markers as +frame numbers+ - not SMPTE drop-frame timecode. This I did not expect, and so far have not found a workaround.
Is there is any way (other than the XML file) to export plain-vanilla markers with their comments, start times, and end times in drop-frame timecode? And if not, can someone please tell me of some way to convert these frame numbers into drop-frame timecode?
(And while I'm at it, "boo" and "hiss" to Cupertino: If you're gonna have chapter markers and compression markers, why not subtitle markers? Or, heaven forbid, a subtitle track within FCP??)

First: I know this isn't going to help at the moment but you should always test your workflow before embarking on a long complicated process.
Guilty as charged. That said, exporting the markers and writing STLs is still a better workflow than doing subtitles manually in DVDSP.
Second: Do a google for "timecode to frame number converter" like I just did and you'll get a bunch of hits. At least a few within the first few look like they will solve your problem (at least allowing you to do a quick conversion from frame number to timecode).
I always search before asking. Almost all of the hits were timecode calculators, not unit converters. All the programs that were potential candidates turned out to be Windoze apps or iPhone chotchkies. I even took a look at some of the QuickTime sample code and headers just in case there was a "QTFrameNumberToSMPTE"-like function in the API that I could commandeer. No dice.
In the meantime I'm butchering the XML file into a tab-delimited file and using a lookup table in Excel to return the last five digits of the timecode (HH:M:__;_). It works, but on the whole it's a bit more tedious than I would have hoped.

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