>Have you tried StarOffice 5.2? It is pretty good about I/O with MS Word files.
I don't like StarOffice because it tries to act like a window manager. It takes over everything and even has its own desktop (that I think sucks by the way). I just want to be able to install StarWord alone and run it as a single app, none of this environment change crap. Not even MS Office does that, but then again, maybe it does since it is being ran on Windows. =) But the Mac version doesn't, so ugh...