From Palm Desktop to iPod Touch

I have many years of contacts and calendar entries in my Palm Desktop (& Palm PDA). I want to migrate these contacts and calendar into my new iPod Touch, using it as my PDA going forward.

I have the same problem: I had a Palm Pilot for years and have a lot of historical information that I want to IMPORT. That is, I'm not interesting in Synching, I'm interested in IMPORTING it once and leaving Palm Desktop behind.
I'm running Outlook on my PC, but it's Outlook 2002, so I don't think your solution will work. I would have to pay to upgrade, which is very expensive for a one-time use (I probably wouldn't continue to use Outlook).
Do you have a suggestion for a one-time solution to import Palm Data into something that runs on a PC that I can then synch with my iPod Touch, other than Outlook?

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