StarOffice 8 CDE Icon and Document File Extension Associations

I recently upgraded to Solaris 10 (5/08). With previous versions of Solaris, I installed StarOffice 7 from CD and it placed the nice little icon in the CDE desktop panel and it created StarOffice associations to all the typical office file extensions (ie. .doc, .xls, etc.). I would like to use the StarOffice 8 that is bundled with Solaris 10. Is there an installation step or some other way to automatically setup the CDE icon and the file extension associations?
Thanks,
Joe
Edited by: jdulisse on Sep 19, 2008 11:45 AM

I came across the same problem on windows XP SP2 machines.
I created a registry key that forces the file associations as follows:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.doc\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.doc\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.doc\shell\open\command ]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\StarOffice 8\\program\\soffice.exe\" \"%1\""
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.xls\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.xls\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.xls\shell\open\command ]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\StarOffice 8\\program\\soffice.exe\" \"%1\""
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ppt\shell]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ppt\shell\open]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ppt\shell\open\command ]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\StarOffice 8\\program\\soffice.exe\" \"%1\""

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