How to work with dependencies on glibc2.3?

I am trying to get a number of music related packages working on Suse 8. I have been dismayed to see that both Suse 8 and 8.1 are at glibc2.2.5. MusE in particular requires libc.so.6 from glibc2.3 and won't start. Is there anything I can do with Suse 8 to get this working? The MusE that's installed with Yast is too unstable to really use and is many revs out of the latest version.