I believe this problem is (believe it or not) related to the size of Openoffice's toolbar icons. Try going into the View options for Openoffice and change the toolbar icon size to large - it seems setting the icon size to small causes Writer and Calc to crash.
-- OpenOfficeOrg update crashes on Kubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/90523 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
