I just found a copy of OpenOffice-1.9.118, it is supposed to hit the mirrors tomorrow but I found it at the Malta LUG, on their mirrors! It was quite a slow download, though, so I won't share the address, get it tomorrow!
The news is that the Gnome graphics system is working again, and this also works under KDE with GTK-QT-engine. Shame about the icons, but as it just requires any 16x16 *.png graphics, they can be changed, shame it has to be done one at a time!
All we need is for someone to write a script to install nice KDE or GNOME icons, and OpenOffice will look nice on our screens, as well as being great functionally.