COuld always switch from an Access database to a MySQL database, and MySQL is supposed to be better & faster anyway. I'm sure theres conversions and Mandrake 9.0 comes with MySQL.
At the least, you should be able to save the .mdb into some version of a delimited text file then import that into MySQL. I'd help more, but don't know enough about it as I just installed Mandrake 9 but needed the power supply out of that system

and haven't used it much.