StarOffice 5.2: Failed to load necessary components

It's 7.1 Pro, StarOffice 5.2. Whenever I try to start the beast, it produces Failed to load necessary components I checked the archives of the list but the best match I found was that the problem was discussed on the list already. I looked through 2001 and 2000, month by month (I hate this type of search--isn't it possible to allow global search of the whole archive?) but found nothing. Anybody knows the solution? (I use Applixware at home but have no other choice but SO at work to read M$ files) -Kastus