While we're on the topic of ODT export problems: I was in the process of converting PDF to Text to Org to ODT/DocX and discovered that certain characters seem to break exported odt documents, which fail with a line and col number. So far the only one I know for sure is the " " (Char: C-l (12, #o14, #xc)). Hopefully a single fix can handle all such cases.
You probably don't need it, but I verified with the following file: http://toryanderson.com/files/breakorg.org Org-mode version 8.2.10 (8.2.10-32-gddaa1d-elpa)
