I am not sure if this helps or not, but I ran "gdb" on the openoffice in Ubuntu 7.04 Beta ( /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin with the parameters -norestore -writer ) and produced a backtrace.
** Attachment added: "backtrace.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6932187/backtrace.txt -- OpenOffice.org crashes saving Word files https://launchpad.net/bugs/95882 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs