Has anyone had any experience installing OO dictionaries under Vista?

I've tried File ... Wizards ... Install New Dictionaries and running the macro. 
It gets as far as "Retrieve the list", but just counts to itself for a long 
time, then reports "You don't seem to be connected to the Internet. Please 
verify that OpenOffice.org has access to the Internet". Of course, it does have 
access to the Internet -- two browsers and a variety of other programs on that 
PC access it correctly -- the second sentence must be the crucial one; it must 
be OO that needs to be told something, not the system as a whole.

I've tried setting the proxy to all three possible states: no proxy, system or 
manual, using the same settings that are used successfully by OO on an XP 
system in the same office and using the same internet connection. I can't think 
what else to tweak.

Has anyone got any ideas, please?

Alec.

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