copying contacts & email messages

I need help in copying my contacts and email messages from my old laptop (Window 98, Outlook 2000) to my new laptop (XP Professional, Outlook Express 6).

At this stage i can boot up the old laptop, but it shuts down within a minute or two, how can i get my information off the old computer.

Could someone also give me step by step istructions on how to backup emails in a word document other than copying and pasting each email.

Thanks

 

XP comes with a transfer utility to move settings from a previous machine. I used it to transfer IE and Outlook settings/data from a Win98SE PC to an XP Pro laptop and it worked well (I created the resulting file on the destination laptop through network link, rather than tranfer the file via CD or whatever. But you do need Outlook on the other machine to open the files, as EAFielder said.