Access 97, dude that's steam driven software. But, that should not matter since we are providing the Access tables in D-Tools.
Send an email to
http://www.d-tools.com/support/submit-an-issue.html and requests and NDA. Once you sign the NDA they will give you the password to get into the D-Tools Access tables.
The other option would be to add the new items and marl the old items as discontinued.
You could first copy the old packages and then replace the old items with the new items.
In V5 you will be able to import from any CSV file and map the fields.