OpenOffice woes

I have downloaded the binaries for OO 642 , 641D and the Swedish binaries for 641c and tried to install them. All installation attempts fail. What I do get is a progress meter that's actually indicating something -in it's own window- and the message "glibc: 2.2.4" in my terminal. Then the process dies and I get the prompt back. Is it still so that you have to have glibc 2.2.1 in order install OO? I'm running SuSE 7.3, everything updated today with apt-get. My java is j2sdk1.4.0 from Sun but I've tried 1.3.1 and 1.3 with the same meager results. Do I have to build it from sources? (Will take 36 hrs on my PII!) Please help me. -- Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.