I deleted my ~/.libreoffice and ~/.openoffice.org directories. That solved the problem, tables are now working as normal, so you can close this bug.
Perhaps I should have moved those directories somewhere out of the way, so I could have a poke around to see what broke, but ah well, it's all good now. cheers, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org