I have succesfully emerged OpenOffice. When I run /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice (why is this not in my path with a symlink?) as a normal user I get to install a personal installation. I press 'next' a few times. Then I get to the phase: "Create local settings". Here the copying of: share/icons/hicolor/(48x48|32x32|16x16)/apps/*.xpm to /home/tange/.kde2 fails /home/tange/.kde2 is writable by me. My guess is that the source file does not exist as it seems it does not have full path to the *.xpms. After a lot of .kde2-stuff I get a few missing .gnome-stuff. I guess the problem is a missing prepended path somewhere
run ooffice, it is in your path, /usr/bin