Two thing I noticed are: 1. It's also happening KDE 4.2-beta 2 and 2. 
I'm running a 64-bit machine. So, the problem is not confined to just 
i386 machines and KDE 3.5/4.1.

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> Ok so it appears the reason it probably works in Debian with 3.0.1 is
> because he probably doesn't use the KDE 4 option for OOo and just uses
> KDE 3 integration.
>
> I'll have to disable the KDE 4 integration with my next upload.  :( 
>
> -- [ppa] openoffice.org-kde broken - latest openoffice.org-kde causes 
> crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306908 You received this bug 
> notification because you are a direct subscriber of a duplicate bug. 
> Status in “openoffice.org” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug 
> description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org-kde Yesterday I 
> updated my openoffice to latest version: 3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1. It 
> started crashing then, imediatly after start any openoffice 
> application. I discovered that the problem is in openoffice.org-kde 
> package - after removing it, the openoffice works fine. I am useing 
> kubuntu 8.10 - 64bit with KDE 4.1.3 The package version is: 
> openoffice.org-kde_3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1_amd64.deb I was useing 
> openoffice 3.0 before and it worked fine - with the openoffice.org-kde 
> package Unfortunately I do not have backtrace. The system display only 
> message that the backtrace seems to be not useful. I am only console 
> otput of openoffice. Here is it: kk@kk-nb:~/tmp/oo-kde$ openoffice 
> kk@kk-nb:~/tmp/oo-kde$ QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be 
> painted by one painter at a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter 
> not active QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one 
> painter at a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active ASSERT: 
> "slOpt" in file /build/buildd/kde4libs-4.1.3/kdeui/kernel/kstyle.cpp, 
> line 3314 QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one 
> painter at a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active 
> QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at 
> a time. QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active ASSERT: 
> "slOpt" in file /build/buildd/kde4libs-4.1.3/kdeui/kernel/kstyle.cpp, 
> line 3314 KCrash: Application 'soffice.bin' crashing... 
> sock_file=/home/kk/.kde/socket-kk-nb/kdeinit4__0 X IO Error