OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 Text Converter Error

[C M Reinehr]

To All Debian Users out there:

I have installed the deb package for OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 twice, from 
scratch, this week, and I still receive an error when I try to open a text 
file for editing with Writer:

        Read-Error
        Error loading converter.

I can save as a text file, and I can open other formats (for example, 
html), just not text.

Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this? Do you suppose this is a 
package error. I haven't tried downloading the tgz from OpenOffice.org, 
yet. (For that matter, I haven't been able to connect to 
www.openoffice.org for the last day or so.) There is nothing about this 
type of problem in the debian or OO lists. (A couple of other people 
posted similar questions, but there have been no answers.)

This is a new, up to date, install of Debian Sarge.

TIA!

cmr
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