I know that stock rpm's from openoffice.org *can* be installed, but I think it would be a pity to ruin the otherwise great artwork consistency (I have to seduce the new Linux users, remember).
The latest Fedora 5 came out, and I see that there's a source rpm available at rpm.pbone.net. Unfortunately, I'm on dialup here, and there's no chance I can get this until next week. Plus, I'm only a beginner with source RPM's, and OO is somewhat of a bear to compile. Now what if one of the gurus here gave it a shot? Got some bandwidth and some CPU to spare? Or maybe evaluate my chances as to the outcome? Or is it better to tell the Windows people to default to .sxw and stick with the present version (which, I must say, looks quite bug-free)?
Rebuilding the OOo 2.x rpms from fedora require significant rebuilding of several other packages as well, and what you end up with is closer to fedora than centos. Because of the major package upgrades required, we decided against a rebuild. The official openoffice rpms from openoffice.org work perfectly, and install right beside the current centos 1.x rpms. The 2.x rpms will import the centos/rhel settings and 'just work' if you install all the rpms (there's one in another folder that people forget when they unpack the tarball).