Just tried it in Lucid with Ooo 3.2, and it seems that the bug is back indeed, but ONLY if I manually install hunspell-de-med. language-support-extra-de, of which this used to be a part, is longer in the repositories at all (seems it was removed for Karmic). So for now I'd say the solution is simply not to install hunspell-de-med.
Just tried it in Lucid with Ooo 3.2, and it seems that the bug is back indeed, but ONLY if I manually install hunspell-de-med. language- support- extra-de, of which this used to be a part, is longer in the repositories at all (seems it was removed for Karmic). So for now I'd say the solution is simply not to install hunspell-de-med.