I have been looking into gnome mime types and it should be fairly simple to create a set for OpenOffice.org that could be setup as defaults. We would then want to disable the ones that OOo adds to the users profile.
The first part I can do simply and would mean that even if the user had not used OOo yet the mime types would be recognised and OOo would be run. This should not interfere with the stuff that is installed as part of the setup. The second part would mean changing the code of the setup program I think so I am not to sure. i don't think that this is completely necessary but would mean less tampering with the users home dir. Also should we associate the MS documents with OOo as well? john -- John Cooper |Phone 0114 223 3052 Your Senior IT Administrator |Fax 0114 290 9192 Your Communications - Sheffield |email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

