Hello Nathan,
the openoffice solution sounds and looks to be pretty superior... I heard that SUN will start *licensing* StarOffice from version 6.0 on! OpenOffice will remain opensource though I believe.
Do you know what kind of people are/were hacking around with an openoffice conversion solution? Which community could I bother with this?? I already talked to some developers at openoffice.org, but they all seem to work for SUN and told me that they are developing a closed source solution doing conversion. (What great of an opensource community 😉... That was ~4 month ago - things might have changed?!