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Wouldn't the use of name spaces solve your problem ?

I hope this will work :

#include <function.h> // the STL Headers in which the problematic templates are defined

namespace X {
		template <class T>
		inline bool operator<=(const T& x, const T& y) {
  	  // your special implementation
		}
	// here will also go all the USERs ( i.e. classes ) of your partial order lists
	}

using namespace X;

// the USERs of your lists

The only overhead here is that all the users must be in the same namespace as your 
templates, or better yet, in their own namespace, with a using namespace in it, to use 
namespace X.

Another overhead is to wait for a compiler which implements namespaces :-).

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