Importing .pst files from Outlook to Enourage2004

Hi everyone,
I am looking for the easiest way to help my mother-in-law transfer over her PC files to her brand new MacBook (1.83Ghz Intel Duo)- she is a first time Mac user. I personally have little experience using Entourage, so I am trying to find out the best way to transfer over her files. She exported her outlook files (.pst) onto a USB flash drive so we can import onto the new Mac; however, there is no .pst option for import on the Entourage program. She does not have Outlook Express, but Outlook 2005 from the Office suite.
Any way of getting those .pst files off the flash drive? Her PC desktop is at her home in Virginia, and she just purchased the Macbook today with me out in LA. We would like to set up her Entourage ASAP, especially since I can help her while she is here in LA. If not, open to other suggestions (like .csv file export/import) or anyone know of any useful scripts?
Thanks so much
Leah

We currently have the .pst files on a USB flash drive- is there anything that we can download on the MacBook to convert pst files?

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Can you import the PST file and find the sent items in another Outlook for Windows? If the issue only occurs in Outlook for MAC, I'd suggest you pose the question in the forums below:
Office for MAC
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support
Support for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_macoffice2008_master
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I have a simple question for you...
The normal procedure suggested me to import a pst file from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2013 from File->Open and Export->Import/Export->Import data from other programs....etc. This procedure works normally.
If I export mail by mail (one each mail at time) from Outlook 2007 to a normal folder in my desktop I have a folder with more .msg files. And, when I finished to do this I import mail by mail from my desktop folder to new .pst file in Outlook 2013.
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