I've got the same exact problem like 'smegheadz'. I'm about to buy Lumia when suddenly my faithful N900 passed away.. No way to bring it back to life..
Fortunately I've got a full backup and a recent contacts/messages synchronization through Nokia Suite.
My problem is that I haven't synchronized my contacts to Outlook too, only on Nokia Suite. So, I cannot proceed to sync with Outlook anymore, since my N900 is dead.
Is that a way to get my contacts out of Nokia Suite and transfer them to Lumia?