If maemo Abiword is installed you may also have to enable the mime type for (msdoc?) on the defaults tab of dbus-switchboard.

Debian abiword is nice and stable so as kind of a challenge i made an 100meg ext2 abiword appliance to go with my other ext2 appliances.

Not sure anyone would be interested since you can run it in debian, but assuming you wanted to keep a semi-lean 100meg ext2 appliance for abiword you could even associate it as a handler by using the command :
'Abiword (Ext2Run)' 'ext2run /media/mmc2/fsimgs/abiword-100meg.ext2 %params%

Of course i ripped of my chroot script from an older qole chroot script so it doesnt work with files in /var/tmp (like email attachments) but i will fix that in future isomount package revision.

I'll do some testing with GPE Audio player to see if that works ok.