Openoffice/Openbox problem?

I'm new to Arch Linux (and linux in general really) but I've gotten along just fine. I installed Openbox and everything was cool until I noticed openoffice did nothing when i clicked on it in the menu. It seems obmenu refuses to save my execute setting for openoffice specifically. Not for anything else though. I checked to make sure i wan't missing anything i needed to run it, and i'm not. I can run it from the terminal just fine. I haven't found anything online regarding this, but it's possible I haven't looked hard enough.
Any explanation? Thanks

You should switch to libreoffice. Arch will not package openoffice in the future.

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In Openbox, I can't get xcompmgr to run at all. When I try to launch it, I get this message
error 191 request 159 minor 8 serial 8658
It just repeats over and over and over until I close xterm (and then xcompmgr has exited as well). Here is my xorg.conf file... any idea about these two problems? I'm using an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro and fglrx, btw.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "aiglx" "true"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
#Load "GLcore"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "xtrap"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "i2c"
#Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon 9500 Pro"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0:0"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
Option "RENDER" "true"
Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

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