After todays updates Open Office won't start.

[debian]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:47 -0500, Fred Schuelzky wrote:
> Came home from work, and there were 41 updates. I'm new to Ubuntu and 
> always blindly hit the install button.  A lot of the updates were open 
> office related. Now none of the Open Office app's will open. Has anyone 
> else encountered this problem?  Where do I start to troubleshoot? I am 
> running hardy with yesterday's new kernel.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Fred
> 
you may just try reinstalling it. OO works fine on my end and i updated
too

first you need to remove it, open the terminal and type : 

sudo apt-get remove openoffice

wait for it to complete
then type

sudo apt-get install openoffice

hth
--cj