Mathematica seg. faults with glibc 2.3.5

[Jan <staff@fys.ku.dk>]

Hello

I recently upgraded my Debian unstable, so that it is fairly up to date
with the newest packages (which it wasn't). In the process, glibc was also
upgraded. This meant that my Mathematica 4.2 would not work anymore. I
faced a similar problem before, the solution I used then was to install an
older libc in /oldlibs, and force mathematica to use that. This was the
way everything worked until this last upgrade, but now it won't work any
more. The error I get is:

/bin/sh: /oldlibs/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found
(required by /bin/sh)

I found somewhere on the net a suggestion of using the dynamically linked
binaries that come with the install CD. After making the necessary
changes (as described here:
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/intel/dynamic.html)
I tried this, but it didn't work either. The error I got was:
/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/4.2/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-dyn/MathKernel:
relocation error:
/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/4.2/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-dyn/MathKernel:
symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link
time reference

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can make Mathematica work?

Thanks,
Jan