Moving emails from Mail on Mac to Outlook Express on Windows...

Can anyone help me with the following scenario?
I have one Mac computer, with 2 accounts set up on it - one for me, one for my wife.
My wife just recently got a Windows 'netbook' and now wants to transfer her entire Mail.app InBox to the new PC. There's no need to copy the Address Book (copied on a mobile phone already), and she doesn't really need the Sent Items or anything like that. All that she's interested in copying over is all the emails that are in Mail.app's InBox.
The netbook has Windows XP on it, and Outlook Express.
Bear in mind that there are hundreds of messages, so anything that involves saving/exporting each email individually one by one is not really an attractive option.
Also, a fair amount of the emails will have attachments, so any method that supports retaining the attachments is welcomed.
I know the Mac OS and all its apps like the back of my hand, but I must admit to being a total noob when it comes to Windows.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Mac OS 10.5.5
Mail 3.5
UPDATE: I do have Entourage 12 (Office 2008) on my Mac too, which is currently not used at all, if this can be used for any intermediary steps.

I'm fairly sure you would be better off avoiding Outlook Express in favour of Mozilla Thunderbird, I have a Windows XP X64 PC that I used as my main pc before buying my MBP and used Thunderbird on it, when I got my MBP I remember moving the emails across was very easy, Mail.App and Thunderbird use a similar file structure, I'm sure I just dragged and dropped whole directories across (it is some time ago though).
Here are 3 links, the first discusses Thunderbird and importing/exporting mail.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importingand_exporting_yourmail
This gets more specific
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=363915 - you need to read down, he has put a 'how to on the post'
The second is a program for converting from emix to mbox format.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29050
BTW Thunderbird can be installed on OSX and Windows, so you can move all the emails over on the mac, check them with Thunderbird, before installing TB on your windows pute.
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