Although it would be an excellent exercise to use this as an opportunity to learn SSIS, I imagine real world deadline pressures will dictate that you're better off sticking with the tools you know (T-SQL, stored procs) rather than trying to learn something brand new, especially for a single use transformation like this.
You should be able to use the Data Import Wizard from SQL 2005 to import the data for you.
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