Paul, I've found a tool that may help. I've never used it, so can't tell you how to use it. You'll have to figure it out. It says in the info on it that it will recover emails from a dbx file as eml files in a specified location.
John.http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/download/RecoveryToolboxForOutlookExpressInstall.exe
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