mscion:

You probably downgraded your openoffice.org version from 3.1 in the Easy Debian image to the Lenny version, 2.4. There's not much we can do about that at the moment, since Debian pulled all the newer versions from their repositories. Your only other option for 3.1+ openoffice.org is to use an Ubuntu image instead.

Hm, it looks like you may only have to go down to openoffice.org 3.0 if you go through Debian Backports, but it is trickier. Maybe that's how you got it to work through Aptitude; maybe Aptitude knows how to handle Backports better.

What's the version of openoffice.org that you now have?