Open Office Problem

[raro]

setup in my office as follows:

"My Documents" is in fact not on my laptop, but mapped to a drive on the server. The "make available offline" option allows me to carry all data around and serves as a backup at the same time. Both computers run under XP Pro, connected by a D-Link router. The laptop is actually wireless connected, if that helps.

Since Friday, whenever I try to save or attach a spreadsheet to an e-mail, the laptop goes offline, i.e. it says that the server doesn't exist anymore and a I/O error is the result. Go online again and you find a corrupted version of the file you wanted to safe.

Now the interesting part: I run at the same time a program to remote-control the server, i.e. I see in a window on my laptop the desktop of the server. This program runs stable, I can do things on the server while Open Office (or is it the explorer?) claims the server does not exist. Also copying of files back and forward is no problem, only OO files crash.

Rebooted both, uninstalled Open Office, cleaned the registry, deleted all traces of OO I could find and tried to reinstall. Didn't work. Some unintelligible error message. At the moment I am about downloading the latest version...will still take a while because my brand new 1 Meg connection is at a breathtaking 24 kb...no....the guys at TT&T have NO clue why....