All Outlook data resides in a Personal Folders file with a PST extension.
Why not just open the desktop PST file in your laptop's Outlook installation
and use the Copy to Folder command to copy them into your laptop's PST file?
That's the safest way to do it.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
> I set up all of my contacts (in verios folders) in MS
> Outlook (Outlook2000 SP-3 version 9.0.0.6627) on my
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> Mike