Forget renaming the folder - delete the whole bloody thing. Gone for good without any adverse effects. I'd even argue it improves the software since the characters no longer intrude to use system resources or force multi-step responses.
Or better yet: Use Open Office from
www.openoffice.org. V2 is soon to be released and a marked improvement on v1.x. Pre-releases of v2 have been quite stable for me on Windoze & Linux.