The tool extremely helpful, and will be even more so when it stops writing out the padding for region-before and region-after. After applying this patch, one may use FOP trunk (0.91svn) to convert the word document into a PDF (or in theory to RTF, once the FOP RTF renderer is fixed ;-)).
Created attachment 17953 [details] Patch against trunk to correct output xsl-fo
Patch applied to svn, thanks for that