Importing Outlook .pst files into Mozilla

[Whale Watcher]

My desktop PC, which ran Windows XP Pro SP 2, has died and with it MS Office and Outlook. I have treated myself to a new laptop, running Windows Vista Home, with Mozilla Thunderbird. The installation disk from my PC won't install MS Office on my laptop. I have a fairly recent backup of my Outlook pst files but how do I import them into Mozilla? Mozilla won't do it unless you also have Outlook installed, are there any 3rd party applications that will do the job?

 

[Whale Watcher]

Problem solved

Solved the problem by downloading the MS Office trial and importing backups into Outlook and thence to Thunderbird.

Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem.