Restoring OE - Is There An Alternative Method?

I recently needed to reformat hard drive and reinstall XP Pro, which went well (knock wood). I have done updates for XP and Office (2003) and have everything up and running *except* Outlook Express.

I find that I did not follow the recommended procedure in backing up OE. Instead of going into OE and using the Export function, I used a backup utility (Argentum Backup) that was to have saved the appropriate folders for easy restoration.

What I have backed up are:

Documents and Settings/[user name]/Local Settings/Application Data/Identities/{###......}/Microsoft/Outlook Express

and

Documents and Settings/[user name]/Application Data/Microsoft/Address Book/[user name].wab

I can see the various .dbx folders (Inbox, Outbox, personal folders that I have created) inside the Outlook Express folder, so I figure there should be some way to restore them, but I can't figure out how.

I have not set up a Mail Account yet. Not certain whether or not I should do so and import into that account.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.