In the meantime you could try something like this to get it working. It won't be as well integrated as 2.4 but it works well and has some nice improvements.
Use Synaptic to remove all openoffice 2.4 components
Download the Debian based tar.gz file for openoffice 3 from the openoffice.org site to your desktop
Right click on the downloaded file and choose 'extract here'
Navigate into the folder it creates. Right click and choose 'Open Terminal here'
In the terminal type
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sudo dpkg -i *.deb