>>Have you tried StarOffice 5.2? It is pretty good about I/O with MS Word files.
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>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...

A lot of Penquins think the way you do! On Oct 13th Sun is releasing SO 5.2 to GPL and the first thing that will be done is to break out the apps so they can be called independently.
JLK