Time Machine - how to save work and mail after 'restore to' date

OK, things have gone seriously wrong on my girlfiends almost new 21" iMac.
First Excel wouldn't open a week ago, and now Quark won't launch and Word seems to be corrupted.
Time to go back in time.... (cue wibbly wobbly special effect)
We reckon it was definitely ok about a month ago. She backed up regularly.
1- Is there a way to just go back with the apps and OS and leave everything else alone?
2 - Failing that, she can back up all her recent work, but how to keep the mails in the Outlook mailbox that have been recieved since the 'go back' time?
Many thanks.

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Hi.
Okay, well, did ask on the msdn forums, and some one replied, and so, will paste the code he suggested.
But getting a lot of errors.
Can you help me out.
Where am I going wrong.
So, I can then get this to work, then it shows the colours and the fonts on the specified data grid.
Can you help.
Want to get this working and passed today if possible.
Will pasate the code and the errors below.
Can you help.
Where am I going wrong.
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new
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new
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