This guy posted a new icon theme set for OpenOffice based on the Tango/Human theme that is default in Ubuntu.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2168119 

All you do is move the zip file to /usr/lib/share/openoffice/share/config/ and restart OpenOffice. OO looks much better, although I have noticed a slight performance decrease in OO.

I have been waiting for this for a long time. People much smarter than me figured out how to run your Windows partition from Ubuntu using VMWare Player. I have a seen a couple of ways to do this, here are some links:

http://www.advicesource.org/ubuntu/Run_Existing_Windows_Instalation_On_Ubuntu_With_Vmware_player.html

http://rougebob.com/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware.htm