What to do to access "Local Settings" and "Application Data"?

> Hi - I just bought an Vista laptop and I want to migrate my Outlook.pst
> file from one machine to the other (I'm sticking with Office XP - at least
> for now).
>
> Now - the most natural thing to me seemed to just copy over the .pst file
> from "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Outlook" to the new machine. But strange enough on the new
> system the access to the user's (i.e. my own!) "Local Settings"
> sub-directory is denied!?! How to I override that???
>
> I checked under the folder's security settings and noticed that not the
> user is the owner of this but "SYSTEM". Do I need to take ownership of
> this folder to get access?
> I also noted, that "Local Settings" and "Application Data" are actually
> just "hard links" (junctions?) to some other directory. How does one get
> Vista to reveal where this is actually pointing to?
>
> Michael
>