This problem has also been mentioned here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=77989

Hey,

I have the same problem (Ubuntu Intrepid with OpenOffice.org 3.0 from the official PPA. In case it matters, I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT and I'm using the latest version of the proprietary driver -glx 180-) . This didn't happen with OpenOffice.org 2.