Back some years, when many indoor facilities had boards, not Mondo, in many places you were not allowed to use spikes of any kind or length, period. There was a particular type of shoe called an indoor (or more precisely, indoor/outdoor) spike, which was like a flat, except it had a spike plate, and spike receptacles that were recessed so they could be covered when not allowed to be used. There were also specific indoor blocks, which you can still buy.
There actually are some “spikeless spikes” around yet, and I wonder if they might help you. I think they could provide some traction on surfaces like school hallways, where regular spikes would be useless. This is not intended to be all-inclusive, but this is a list of spikeless track shoes:
http://www.nextag.com/shoes-spikeless-track/stores-html
I’m sure I’m not the only one here who can remember these things.
And you think you had it bad with false starts, this is the WHOLE video of Donovan’s 9.84WR in 1996, with all of Christie’s (ahem) “theatrics”. You have to see the video, because if I told you the story, you’d never believe it (and if you never saw this, it is something you HAVE to see, at least once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqijESw6xHg
And remember that after all of this, Donovan got out of the blocks DFL…and still broke the world record.