Some forward progress, some backwards...

By dint of removing my entire /usr/local/office52 tree and reinstalling 
it -- the exact same way, as best I recall -- and copying over the 
.user52.rdb file from my 1.5R machine, I got StarOffice 5.2 to start.  
That's the good news...

The bad news is that there's some malign interaction with the X server. 
If I run StarOffice from the 1.5R machine, all is cool.  If I run it 
directly from the 1.5.1 BETA machine, the mouse becomes *very* sluggish 
(with 5-10 second pauses before it does anything), and 'top' (from the 
other machine) shows that X is consuming 95+% of the CPU.  Killing 
StarOffice doesn't help, at least not immediately -- I'll experiment 
further after I send this note and exit exmh.  

Both machines are running XFree86 4.0.3, but have different graphics 
cards.  The 1.5R machine (an AMD desktop) has an ATI Mach64; the 1.5.1  
Beta machine (a Thinkpad 21) has an S3 Savage/IX-MV.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb