Open Office defunkt

Hi all, just needed to open an important document, and OOo freaked out on me. It just would not start any more. Here's what I did to remedy: 0. Restart X. - no change 1. Reboot (okay.....MS style, kinda infected there ;-) - no change 2. Reinstalled OOo from CD -no change 3. Removed my .kde and .kde2 profiles and started fresh. -no change 4. Installed Star Office 6.1 beta - same problem 5. Opened another user - same problem 6. Ran strace on it , it showed no particular reason to get stuck, it just stuck. They just stick there with the title on the screen ( particularly nice ) and that is the end of that. Any ideas ? Regards Dan - buddha 2.4.20-4GB 4:21pm up 1:03, 5 users,