Basically, it's a known bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272712
solution is:
fixed by adding
export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1
to /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf
Thanks for the help though.
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