I dont know is this is an openoffice bug. But when I open an openoffice file from nautilus, with openoffice running, the window with the document I open dont comes to front. The taskbar alert of a new window, but I got to click on the bar to bring it to the front. I'm using an up to date etch Debian. I think this is a release critical bug. I dont found a Bug Report on http://www.debian.org/Bugs