[ALUG] Odd behaviour in OO - Java??

[Peter Alcibiades]

Just changed to Etch AMD64, and OO behaves oddly, I suspect connected to Java 
in some way.

The approved way of putting buttons and controls into your documents is 
VIEW>TOOLBARS>FORMCONTROLS.  This brings up the little click and paste 
widget, and it does allow you to paste buttons in. 

Having done this, the next step would be right click on the button.  You are 
now supposed to be able to choose CONTROL.  However, nothing happens.  The 
cross hairs stay in place, and all I can do is create a new button.

In Writer, drag and drop doesn't work at all.  Select some text and try to 
drag it, and nothing happens.

Base seems to be so unstable as to be unusable.  Almost anything you do 
crashes it.

Suspecting this might be something to do with Java, I tried to install both 
the Sun JRE 64bit and 32 bit versions in addition to the FSF one.  They 
appeared to go in fine, but the only one OO is aware of in the OPTONS>Java 
menu is the FSF one.  How does OO become aware of a JRE?  You're invited to 
supply classes and so on, but I can't figure out how to do that because of 
not being able to find anything it will agree is a Jre.  Where would I look 
for such a thing?

One thing that suggests it may not be Java, its very odd that if it is Java, 
my Mandriva installation shows no Jre at all, but all this stuff works fine.  
On the other hand, turning off the FSF Jre in Etch leads to a lot of stuff 
going missing.

Its true that Mandriva 2006 being stuck in a timewarp with OO, I downloaded 
and installed it direct from OO.  The Mandriva is 2.03 and the Debian is 
2.04.  But its hardly credible that going from 03 to 04 screwed up something 
as basic as this.

Anyone have any ideas?  Should I just apt-get uninstall and then download and 
install directly from OO?  Or does anyone know some way of testing that the 
Sun Javas are installed and working and telling OO they are there?

Cheers

Peter