OpenOffice and Star Office

Hello together,
for several reasons i need to open StarOffice / Open Office files written in my oldfashioned Win2000 PC, especially spreadsheets, in Apple works. I tried to save them in StarOffice as excelsheets Version 5 or Version Win97/XP - but AppleWorks still crashes down or gives no response after several minutes.
Has anybody had the same problem solved? Or any glue what to do? Data is about 23.000 music tracks from a database of Tangomusic.
And no, i'm so happy to get rid of microsoft-stuff, there's no alternative for me to install MS-Office

Merci beaucoup Yvan,
for this question i see the reason in your answer.
But i tried also other documents with only 160 rows/5
columns. Is it also a problem, when in a spreadsheet
file are more than one registers/tabs/spreadsheets?
(sorry, i don't know the correct English word).
But the idea of installing OpenOffice was also
helpful: i will use StarOffice, if possible. My
experience with StarOffice was a bit more stably.
StarOffice isn't available for the Mac. On the Mac you've got a choice of OpenOffice or NeoOffice/J. Both are based on OpenOffice. The difference between the two is that OpenOffice for Mac can only run in Mac OS X's UNIX environment (aka X11). This means it cannot do the usual things you'd want to do with a Mac OS X program such as print or use your fonts. In contrast, NeoOffice/J integrates well with Mac OS X and behaves more like a Mac OS X program.

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