I re-discovered how to enable 32-bit addressing in System 6.
Get ahold of "Optima 32" (I use v2.0 from Macintosh Repository). The .sit archive there is a format that cannot be handled by StuffIt Expander 3.5.1; I worked around this by using unarchiver on Linux and renaming the resultant .rsrc file to match AppleDouble nomenclature.
Drop that in the System folder, change the Finder version resource to 6.1.7 in "vers ID = 1" with ResEdit, reboot, and *done*.