I apologize, I believe that I have realized too late that this bug is in fact a duplicate and that the Openoffice packages distributed at http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ already fix this issue.
-- Openoffice 2.04 writer in edgy crashes almost always when clicking on images https://launchpad.net/bugs/70421 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
