gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

[Doug MacFarlane <madmac@vauban.com>]

Team:

I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make
a really nice slide show, and exported it to html.  

It works great.

Except that the slide control buttons, a series of .gif's, are messed up
somehow.  Or my computer is messed up somehow.

At any rate, the .gif's don't load into galeaon, even when I do an File
Open on one of them.  When I try and load them into GQView, it crashes. 
Same for gthumb.  xzgv ignores them.  When I try and load them into the
Gimp, I get a gifload error.

Also, I haven't been able to save .gif files in the Gimp, eventhough I
installed the non-free version . . . 

Any ideas on what's up?

Thanks

madmac