Open Office Menue Bars don't display in Ubuntu

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Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I am running OOo 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.10, latest updated version. running it as root, i have no problems.

But when the other user opens OO, no matter if Writer or something else, the menue bars are there, but do not display the letters. The only things that can be seen are the "_" from the single letter in each word (eg the "_" from under the F from File). If u slide over these "_", for a very short moment the whole word will blink up (less than a second). I restarted the programs, the system - won't help. It doesn't matter if it is full or reduced size either.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686