I feel your pain. I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get StarOffice to work on my machine with an S3 card, with no success. It doesn't just crash when I read mail; usually if I have it on for about five minutes, it will freeze and won't boot up again. (It also then causes problems when I try to unmount my filesystem.) The environment variable fix doesn't work, and the patch on their Web site seems to be obsolete. My roommate has no problems with it, so I assume it's my machine. I notified Star Division tech support via phone and they said they'd get back to me about it, so I'll report back if and when they do.
- Bill
