JohnT--

Thanks for helping me. Here's what I have found as well:

I googled OOo crashes opening file, and found this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rg/+bug/578402

I tried the solution/workaround that someone there posted, mounting cifs with the switch nobrl, and have been working all afternoon with no problems, so for me it seems to be a fix.

When I put this switch in fstab and then umount and mount -a, "nobrl" does not show up in mount -l, but it does seem to make a difference.

Interesting that you should think of Java in this setting. I will try to check it out and see whether it fixes it or not, as well.

Thanks, John!