Open Office Configuration?

[Joe]

When I work with MS Word documents, OOo Writer has fits with the BASIC 
code when I want to save the files.

It keeps looking for it's utilities to deal with it in:
/usr/local ...

I looked around and the stuff it needs is in:
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/share/basic/Gimmicks/

Where do I tell OOo the correct path?  I looked under Tools - Options - 
Paths
and there's nothing about /usr/local - only paths to my user directories.

Thanks.

Joe

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