After installing Exchange 2007 SP1 Management Tools on Windows 2003 SP2 x86 and Outlook 2007 with SP1, the export-mailbox cmdlet was returning this error:
Export-Mailbox : Error was found for "Name" () because: Error occurred in the step: Approving object. An unknown error has occurred., error code: -2147221233
Running FixMapi.exe from the command prompt easily fixes the problem.