HELP: How do I recover mail from an old identity that won't rebuild?

I am using Outlook for Mac 2011 and in the process of trying to fix my email that had been duplicated (since the install of Mavericks) Outlook suddenly froze and I had to hard reboot my machine.  On reboot I was told I had to rebuild the identity, but no matter what I've tried the rebuild would get all the way to step four and then say its not possible with error code -18000.  I finally managed to create a new identity so as least I can open Outlook again, but now how to I recover all my old emails and info that was stored in my old database?  I have no Time Machine or any other backup (yes I'm stupid...and yes I will immediately be setting up a backup protocol for myself) so all I have is the old database files (no .olm either).  Is there anything I can do?  I've searched for answers but haven't found anything so would very much appreciate some guidance.
Thanks in advance

http://www.office.mvps.org/get_started/outlook.html
http://www.officeformachelp.com/2012/05/how-to-recover-your-data-when-rebuilding -restoring-and-upgrading-fails/

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