Jan,
I haven't had time to look at this carefully yet but I
believe if you run the current debian openoffice package with
LD_DEBUG=files you'll see it is failing to load a shared lib
in a non-fatal manner. I am wondering if you see the same
thing on your machine (mine is running glibc cvs so I need
a more *normal* reference point). The reason this concerns
me is that I tried to open a Microsoft Word97 document last
night and it was unrecognized. Even more disturbing was that
if I select the Open command and try to select the file
type submenu, it has no items in it. If I recall properly
it should have a list of all available file types that can
be opened, no? Oh, this is on debian ppc sid of course.
Jack