The clone thing is pretty easy…
Text me
Rectangle and center me.
Center snap me.
Guide me. (pic not working – align a guide to your center point of the rectangle.)
Uncenter snap me. Rotation snap me.
Set rotation point for the text on your guide.
Delete the rectangle.
You only ever needed the rectangle because text won’t snap on center. I suppose it might snap on rotation, but if you center it in a rectangle and use that to align your stuff, it’s pretty easy. Go forth and experiment.
Tiles clones. Shift -100% x per column.
Decide on how many spikes you want. Let’s do 27. Set rotation per colum to be 360/# of spokes.
Note I used the equation in the field, but it’s 13.333 degrees for you mathy types.
Set one row and 27 columns.
Click create. Skadoosh, clones.
Beware that the original text will have a clone on top of it. I tend to kill that clone.
Now you have one text object and 26 clones. Select them all, go to edit->clone->unlink clone. Boom, 27 text objects.
Use the text tool to edit as you see fit.
OR…
I built a php script to search and replace the text in one shot. (see my suggestion to do this way back in this thread) I wrote a 27 line text file and fed it and the svg into the script and this is what resulted.
Here are all the files, the original SVG, the text file to replace with, the php script that edits it, and the resulting output file. If you decide to dig into it, read the top of the php file before you say a word 
replacer.zip (5.8 KB)