OpenOffice.org & ODBC hang

Hi Folks, Has anyone experienced a complete hang in OOo when trying to access a MySQL database through ODBC? Although I can see table names of the database to which I have connected, I cannot perform a simple query (e.g. "SELECT * FROM <table>;"). I can perform the same query in knoda (KDE), which returns the expected rows. This makes me think there is something afoot with the OOo/ODBC interface. Would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced similar problems. Many thanks, Steve