punksluck

Hello people, I have a problem which I hope someone can shed some light on. I recently had to re-install win xp because of a virus and knew that all my applications would be scrubbed of the registry but would still be resident on my machine in Drive C somewhere so when I re-booted the PC I assumed I could navigate my way to the OFFICE file and execute outlook from there. No avail. It tells me that I have to re-install office from the original location (something to do with the registry settings I assume?). Well I can't do that because I no longer have the 'Office' disk and don't really understand what I'm supposed to do anyway!! So how can I retrive all the very important calender appointments and contacts that I cannot access now so that I can save them and import them over to a freshly installed 'Office' at a later date? Very gratefull for ANY advice as I am tearing the very few strands of hair i have out of my balding head!!