This may be a duplicate send, so I apologize if it is...had some email
issues earlier.
You cannot import a SPS 2003 (SPSBackup.exe) backup itself, but you can
certainly attach specific content databases to the farm to have it
upgrade.
In fact, another way of doing this, rather than doing a complete farm
upgrade in a virtual environment, is to simply move the sites you want
to upgrade into their own content database, then take a copy of that
content database and add it to your MOSS farm.