re: outlook express - ms gave me this
I contacted MS about this some months back and got the following summary web page in reply. Looks good to me. I've used it to make a backup on current PC. Unfortunately I was very busy in the interveneing time (months) one of the kids had reformatted the hard disk of the old PC.
OLEXP: How to Back Up and Recover Outlook Express Data http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;270670