I did some stracing, etc, to try and gain more insight into what is happening. I have found is that if I comment out the ServerName directive in my /etc/cups/client.conf everything seems to work just fine. Of course, this cuts me off from the network printer. The CUPS server is running just the current Debian unstable cups with a single printer exported (Brother HL2040). I guess whatever CUPS is returning OOo doesn't like ... -i