Contacts to older ver of outlook?

First Off I am a hardware geek

now that that is out of the way

Problem Description:
Because of bing layd off, i put my "contacts" list onto a CD in hopes that i
could use those contacts on my home system (to drum up a new job). However I
get the error that

"Outlook cannot open this message, a newer version, such as Outlook 2003 or
later, is required to open this message.

It appears that the contact list is from a newer version of outlook than I
have here at home.

The outlook I have installed at home is:

2002 (10.6838.6845) sp3

However I typically use outlook express 6 6.00.2900.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)

and would like to get the contact list from work into express.

Is there anyway to get this list, (Each file is a *.msg file) (or even open
them) into my home version of outlook, or express?

I do not have access to the outlook version that exists at my old
employment. I had assumed that a contact list from outlook would import into
outlook at home, and now it is preventing me from contacting possible job
contacts.

Because I assumed that outlook could talk to outlook, I did not print or
make written copies of these contacts.

Operating System: Windows XP

Our latest product - ContactGenie Toolkit may be of interest if you can't
get access to a later version of Outlook. One of the 24 functions is a
<basic> export (to CSV file only) and allows you to use a stand-alone PST
file (PST version agnostic & standalone = not included in your Outlook
profile). You can export your contact data and then re-import the CSV file
via the Outlook import wizard into your standard O'XP contact folder.

Feature info: http://www.contactgenie.com/cgtoolkit.htm
Download: http://www.contactgenie.com/cg20dlorder.htm

Karl
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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer/DataPorter/Exporter/Toolkit
"Contact import/export/data management tools for Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com


"Shortcircuit" <Shortcircuit.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> First Off I am a hardware geek
>
> now that that is out of the way
>
> Problem Description:
> Because of bing layd off, i put my "contacts" list onto a CD in hopes that
> i
> could use those contacts on my home system (to drum up a new job).
> However I
> get the error that
>
> "Outlook cannot open this message, a newer version, such as Outlook 2003
> or
> later, is required to open this message.
>
> It appears that the contact list is from a newer version of outlook than I
> have here at home.
>
> The outlook I have installed at home is:
>
> 2002 (10.6838.6845) sp3
>
> However I typically use outlook express 6 6.00.2900.5512
> (xpsp.080413-2105)
>
> and would like to get the contact list from work into express.
>
> Is there anyway to get this list, (Each file is a *.msg file) (or even
> open
> them) into my home version of outlook, or express?
>
> I do not have access to the outlook version that exists at my old
> employment. I had assumed that a contact list from outlook would import
> into
> outlook at home, and now it is preventing me from contacting possible job
> contacts.
>
> Because I assumed that outlook could talk to outlook, I did not print or
> make written copies of these contacts.
>
> Operating System: Windows XP
>
>