OpenOffice general error when opening XLS

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I have an .xls file that I am attempting to open in OpenOffice. When I open it, I either get a 'General Error' or a 'File Input/Output' error. Normally I would just chalk this one up to M$ creating broken files, but I tested this same file on another friend's gentoo box with the same version of OO and it opened fine. I am miffed why this is happening. The friend's USE flags are very similar. I can get them and post them if that would be helpful.

Here is the file: http://www.bestsharing.com/files/veKy6S ... y.xls.html
Let me know if you have some better place to put it.

Thanks in advance.

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Also, if you are interested at all in Experts Exchange I also posted this question there so you can get points for answering it. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Softwar ... 58247.html

This is a japanese - english dictionary so don't think its broken if it has weird characters.
And please let me know if the file will even open on your machine, and if so what version you are using. That would be tremendouly helpful.