I am trying the latest version 1.6.3 under 2008 beta and it is not correctly opening Excel 97-2003 xls files. These are files I have used in Excel and the previous version of Gnumeric under os2007. The sheets open but some of the numbers are not being read correctly. I get odd numbers like large negatives or scientific notation where there should be "normal" numbers

After trying several different spread sheets I have, it appears that dates are causing odd results when opening the spread sheet. Ones that have no dates in them open fine. Ones with dates throw other numbers off as well as the dates not displaying correctly.