Firefox 4 will not start on Debian 64 bit.

Hi folks,
I pulled down Firefox 4 (seems that's all the website lets me do) for a system running Debian 6.0.1 64 bit and tried to start it up. First I got the error:
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Then I got "clever" and modified the startup script so that it was pointing to where the library lived and now it says:
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
I can't for one second think that I'm the only one who has run into this. Can we fix this?

you have to install the ia32 libraries to get it working on a 64bit machine:
$ apt-get install ia32-libs
$ apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk

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