How to enforce the position of table* (wide table)

I'm writing a paper using SIGPLAN conference2 columns format. I maintain separate .tex files per each chapters:

%% main.tex    \documentclass[preprint, 10pt]{sigplanconf}\usepackage{ ... }...\maketitle...\input{abstract}\input{intro}\input{related}...

'abstract' and 'intro' together has 1.2 page long, and 'related' follows then. The length of 'related' is 0.8 page long. That means all contents until 'related are in page 2.

The problem is that I have a wide table, {table*} that spans two columns in the 'related' file.

%% related.tex\begin{table*}[t]\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}...\end{table*}

However, this wide table is always located at page 3, not page 2. To make this wide table to be page 2, I need to move the table into the middle of 'intro', which is very ugly. Even worse, this can make the table caption numbers to be out of order.

Is there any way to enforce the location of a wide table? In my case, I want to draw the wide table at page 2.

I came across fixltx2e package, but inserting this package just makes huge errors on {table*} and {figure*}.