Comment 1 for bug 148650

Do you have the "openoffice.org-style-hicontrast" theme installed? Openoffice by default is trying to use a highcontrast-theme if you're using a theme with dark colors (You can change this somewhere in the options menu, but it is, like I said, default). So if you do not have installed the mentioned package, you'll see only text with dark-themes.