im****ting autocorrect / autotext entries

hello,

i have two huge lists of autocorrect entries that are formatted as
tables, with the "abbreviation" in the first column and the expanded
text in the second column. the first list has about 7500 entries, the
second list 27000 entires, and each list is a separate word do***ent.
in word 04 i was able to im****t both lists as autocorrect entries via
a macro...

anyone know of a similar way to do this in word 08, either through
autocorrect or autotext? or is there some easy applesript that someone
could whip up that would do the trick?

i could save each list as a plain text tab- or comma-delimited file,
if that makes things any easier...

thanks!