buy a new hard drive, install it as a primary drive, make your old drive the slave drive, and after installing the new drive, transfer your files to your new drive.
Hard drives are cheap, particularly for an F14 pilot.
would "burn them onto a CD" be missing the point?
Outlook Express stores email in Windows\Application Data\Identities\{2655....)\Microsoft\Outlook Express\*.dbx
They'll probably all fit on one floppy. Also, make hard copies of your most treasured emails.
PS. There will be an identity folder for each mailbox you have in Outlook Express. Remember the Outlook program is in Program Files and shouldn't be confused with the email files.
buy a usb storage device. You can buy a 256 MB at costco for about 50 bucks. Copy the *.dbx files (you can do a seach for these on your start menu.
good luck.