Opening documents in Open Office emailed from Pages

Has anyone had a similar problem to me - documents mailed from Pages to my email account on my iMac cannot be opened in the current version of Open Office. They cause it to crash!   

I own Documents to Go and I use it to get documents from my computer to my ipad and my Touch. It is 9.99 I think (you can find it in the app store) and then you can download a control panel for your computer that allows you to pair the devices and designate a 'sync folder'. THen you can edit on your pc/mac (pretty sure their desktop has a mac version) or your device and sync between the two. You can also have a 'local files' folder so you can put things on your device that don't have to be sync'd (say something you just want for reference).
I'm sure there are other programs out there that will do the same/similar, but Docs to Go is the one I have experience with and know that it works. You can also look in the app store for some sort of document reader. For example, with iBooks, you can put .pdf files on your device and read them - although you can't edit them.

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