I think I know what the original poster is talking about although I'm not sure if this is the forum to talk about it. I just faced the same problem just now.

I'm using Knoppix 3.2 and just upgraded openoffice.org since I wanted the english version installed and not the German one.

Apparently it installed Version OpenOffice 1.1.0-3 and I'm facing a problem with the fonts on the Menu and document. Everything is gone for a toss. It's a little hard to describe how bad it looks.

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dpkg -l openoffice* | grep ii
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 high-quality office productivity suite
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3+2 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 English US language package for openoffice.o
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I looked at my X Config files as well and they appear to be as you have suggested.

Any other ideas / tips on where to look to tweak my configuration settings?

Regards

Rishi