caplock on or wrong name or password error

I downloaded and installed
SecondLife_i686_1_20_0_86489_ADITI_MONO
in order to test it on my PCLinuxOS 2008 Mini Me.

The viewer starts up and displays the log on screen without apparent problems. However, strace reveals that the viewer is expecting locale en_US.utf8 and can't find it. That's because the locale in PCLOS is named en_US.UTF-8. I set a link from the symbolic directory /etc/locale/en_US.utf8 to the real directory /etc/local/en_US.UTF-8, but that did not eliminate the warning messages.

When I enter my SL name and password I get an error msg dialog claiming that either my caps-lock is on (it isn't) or that either my SL name or password are incorrect (they are not), and the login is canceled. I.E., I am unable to log into SL so I can't test the view beyond the log on screen.

Anyone else experience this problem?

I had no visible indications anything was wrong at all. However, when trying the beta grid client on Ubuntu 8.04 a couple days ago, I did get the bogus capslock error and could not login. I eventually hauled up the main grid client just to triple check I really do know my own password and was able to log in no problem...uh then I kinda got distracted and never tried the beta grid again.

Does the Mono client work for any Linuxers??? I still intend to test my sculpty textures on beta first.