StarOffice on potato dist - am I screwed?

["Eric G. Stern" <egstern@enteract.com>]

I'm trying to install the downloaded version of StarOffice on a system
running
a recent version of potato.  It hangs just when I'm telling it to begin
the
install.  I understand there are lots of issues with the version of the
C library
in use.  The release notes say that it is tested with glibc-2.0.7 which
corresponds
to the slink libc6 package.  My current version of libc6 is
2.1.2-0pre12.
I've downloaded and unpacked the slink libc6 package,
but I haven't been able to get it to run with any LD_PRELOAD or
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
tricks.  I've tried naming the libraries explicitly in an LD_PRELOAD
environment
variable, or the directory where I've stored them in LD_LIBRARY_PATH but
I keep getting errors like:

./setup: ../libc.so.6: no version information available (required by
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6)

or

./setup: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol
_h_errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time
reference

Is there any hope of getting this thing to install let alone run?

				Thanks,
				Eric Stern