Gconfd tcpip & various gnome versions

I'm running into a problem with Gnome applications trying to talk to
gconfd when they are spawned from 2 different servers at the same time
to an LTSP thin client machine.  I'm wondering if I can share /tmp from
two different machines.  If I could, I believe this problem would vanish
because gconfd seems to connect to something called orbit through a file
socket in /tmp for each user.  All the Gnome applications  want to
register their preferences there.  Another problem might arise when
different servers have Gnome applications based on different versions of
Gnome -- maybe they have a different schema or protocol that gconfd
uses.  I want to mix and match applications from different distributions
into the X-Windows thin client environment.  So if somebody wants to run
a testing version of Evolution, they can.  Or if they need to run
nautilus, they have choices of which version of Nautilus to run. 
Firefox seems to spawn a gconfd session from my gentoo box at work. 
Then when I try launching some gnome programs next on the main desktop
server they have errors about

    Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
    IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

-- 
Joe Baker
Network Administrator
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.

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