Need to get address/contact info from old computer

Can anyone help me here? I have a backup of my old palm directory on my new computer, and it has an address.bak, address.dat, and UiPrefs.dat.
I can open either the address.bak and address.dat file in notepad, and see the raw text (with lots of extraneous characters). But I need to get this into a csv format, or something else that I can import into excel.
I tried downloading the palm desktop (v. 4.1.4) onto this machine, and importing the address into there, but the only options for import are ABA (address archive), csv, txt, or vcard.
How can I convert my dat or bak file into another format?
thanks for any ideas!
Sylvia
Post relates to: Treo 650 (Sprint)

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