When I run OpenOffice 2.0.1, all the colours are yellow ... very strange ... Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acl alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl dbus dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline recode sdl server slang spell ssl svg tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 78824 [details] Screenshot displaying colour problem
Which desktop environment is this with? OpenOffice takes the font settings from KDE / GNOME, so you might have set something wrong there. In the preferences under OpenOffice.org > View there is a setting for "Use system font for user interface", try if it changes something, when you disable or enable that.
Didn't get required info, can't reproduce, closing