Video Held Hostage - How Do I Export from FCP 7 to PC Edit?

I went out of town to shoot part of a project. Please stay with me here...this is a mess!
The TV station that helped me is not yet HD but DID have a Panasonic HD camera that we used to shoot interviews and video captured onto a P-2 card.
Then, because their server could not accept/hold and later export HD video, we exported the P-2 contents onto a Mac with Final Cut Pro. But I don't use Mac or FCP. I need the video onto a hard drive or a thumb drive or a DVD or ANYTHING that I can take back with me and edit on a PC-based system called Edius that also works off the time code that is attached to the video files and we can see in FCP.
Our first idea was to just use FCP to capture and then export the video files onto a portable, external hard drive...but we soon learned the hard drive had to be formatted for Mac. Of course, once we did that, I could not access anything with a PC.
Then, we decided to export as .mov files onto thumb drives. That would have worked except we found the thumb drive would not accept a transfer of any single file greater than 4GB. A couple of interviews are longer, so that didn't help.
So now, I'm going back home with the external hard drive formatted as Mac and all the FCP files loaded onto that. We do have access to a Mac laptop owned by one of my colleagues but here's the question:
Everything else we've shot is all is PC-based. We want to edit the project in PC-based Edius. How can we take the files on the ext hard drive, open them in FCP, and then export the picture, sound with split tracks audio, and the time code , in some fashion onto SOMETHING that a PC can read and we can use to edit? In other words, we want to preserve and export every element that FCP can now see so that we can use those elements to edit in PC.

Edius has added ProRes support quite a while ago if I'm not mistaken. But you will probably need this:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Window s

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