>If you use the official install you do not get a working 
>system because 
>ibuno_sal.so.3 is not being installed.  The script is broken.
>

Official install being (from OO or SL)? openoffice.org-ure should be
providing libuno_sal.so.3, at least in SL and upstream repos.

Can you manually run yum before the automated script, and see what is
triggering your packages to be removed or upgraded?

rpm -qa 'openoffice*' may be useful for people to see what versions are
interacting here. 

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