Oo Writer Bug

[jack]

All~
I have a need to use mail merge in Oo (class project - go figure)...
Open a doc in Writer, select Mail Merge Wizard -- *bork* goes Oo...
( I also noted that there isn't any way of selecting data sources
either, but that's another story for another beer).

I looked on Launchpad, and found the bug as logged.  One person reported
this on a pre-release of Feisty, and that a complete re-install worked.
However, a half dozen others have reported the same error with a stable
7.04 and that the re-install didn't help.

Has anyone heard about a work-around for this?  Possibly
dropping .openoffice and letting the app rebuild it?  I'm not sure,
but I've been screaming at my school about how stable the platform is,
and I don't want to be left hanging for a bug in an app that isn't
really Ubuntu's domain.

Any input would be appreciated...

Jack