Exporting Mail Messages and Addresses to Outlook

Hello,
I have had to move my wife from her 12" PB to a WinTel (XP Pro) box (to be compatible with a school network and application suite). Yes, an unfortunate downgrade, but the school "encourages" it - i.e., the Mac is unspported.
She has about 1,200 emails on the Mac that I'd like to export to the dreaded Outlook. Trouble is, there doesn't appear to be any way to get the mail messages out of Mail.
Does anybody know how I could do this so that she'd have all her emails in Outlook and would be able to reply to them?
Thanks!

Tried exporting entire folder from Mac mail, (drag folder to desktop = makes an .MBOX file). Shortened filename.MBOX but PC Outlook still refuses it.
According to Entourage Help, expor is also an .MBOX file, so no go either. But! note below in E. help:
• If your Windows-based program cannot import messages as an MBOX-format text file, you can copy individual messages instead. To copy an individual message, save it as a SimpleText text document or an Entourage e-mail message and copy the file to the Windows-based computer. Then import the message as a text (.txt) file or an e-mail message (.eml) file, depending on the format in which you saved the message.
DRAT! Individual messages, not the entire folder. Bummer. Am searching for a workable method for whole folders, will post if I find a solution.

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