Sorry to hear it didn't work for you.

I had just used those same instructions a couple of weeks or so ago to transfer a salesman's messages and email addresses from his Windows 98SE/OE5 PC to his new Sony Viao notebook running Windows XP/OE6. Worked great.

In your case must have had something to do with the OE4. You had originally mentioned OE5 and 6 and that is the versions the instructions were intended for.