Since upgrading to Snow Leopard from V10.4.8 My copy of Open office won't load.  I've downloaded the latest version but it still responds with a "time out" message.  Anyone know waht's up and what I can do about it.  I can't even read my old files.

Since upgrading the OS on my MacBook to Snow Leopard my open office suite has died.  All the old files are still on the HDD, but even "finding" them doesn't help as they are opened, unhelpfully, in Text Edit, which loses some of the formatting.  I tried downloading the latest edition of Open Office, but it has made no difference.  Any suggestions?  Apple OS support has no solution to offer.

Found this, which might provide a clue:
I have had problems with 3.1 after installing Snow Leopard, with files created in MS Word - they come up with the text invisible (as though it's white, but changing the text colour doesn't help - by highlighting I can tell that the paragraphs are where they should be).
I upgraded to 3.1.1 but that did not solve the problem...
UPDATE: I found out the problem, it was nothing to do with Open Office, but rather the way Snow Leopard handles fonts. I went into the Font Book and found that a number of common fonts are now listed both in the "User" and "Computer" collections. I deleted the duplicate ones from "User" and now all works perfectly.
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22045
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