LibreOffice can't open files with spaces in the name

Hi, so I recently installed LibreOffice (from extra) over go-OO. I know the site says it's not for production use but I have heard good things about the stability of the current version so I decided to see if it was in a usable state. In general things are going great, but I do have the problem mentioned in the thread title. The program has trouble parsing the spaces, and instead I am trying to open each space-delimited section of the filename as a separate file. Trying to open "My File.odt", for example, will simply return two error messages, one about "path/to/current/directory/My" not existing, and another about "path/to/current/directory/File.odt" not existing. I can't seem to get around this behaviour and, surprisingly, I can't find anything on it by Googling.
I know that LO is in beta and this may just be a bug that is being worked on, but since I can only find one reference to it on the net I thought that maybe others were not having this problem or had found a way around it. Can anyone provide any insight? Cheers!

vimex wrote:
comment these lines in /usr/lib/ooo-3.3/program/soffice
the $* has some problem, but I do not know how to correct this...
# Setup our app as oosplash, but try to avoid executing pagein,
# and other expensive environment setup pieces wherever possible
# for a second started office
#if [ "$sd_binary" = "soffice.bin" -a -x "$sd_prog/oosplash.bin" ] && [ "$no_oosplash" != "y" ] ; then
# sd_binary="oosplash.bin"
# export QSTART_CHECK_ONLY=1
# if "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" $*; then
# exit 0
# fi
# unset QSTART_CHECK_ONLY
#fi
I noticed that commenting out that code allows LibreOffice to open spaced filenames, but seems to slightly increase startup time.
I tried replacing $* with "$*", and opening from the command line seems to work even for files with spaced names, with the faster startup time too. The only problem is that now LO does not work at all by clicking; only from command line.

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