OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[John Lagrue <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3. I 
start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes 
across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes.

Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc 
activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The 
system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue; 
browsing, email etc.

This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space.

Any ideas?

JDL