Found this bug with Writer 1.1RC4 (German version) on Win98SE. The file was created in Writer from 
scratch, not imported.

Easiest way to replicate bug:
- unzip files
- create a copy of 
"bugfile", for example "copy of bugfile"
- start Writer
- click open, select bugfile. it should 
open normally.
- click open again, select the copy of bugfile. 

At this point, Writer hangs 
replicably on my machine, even after a clean reboot. The progress bar finishes normally, then 
disappears so the grey background behind it becomes visible. After that, Writer is frozen and 
must be shutdown with ctrl-alt-del.

The fact that both files are identical does not seem to be 
important. It seems you can open any file, and then open "bugfile" to cause this.

The strange 
thing is that Writer does not hang when "bugfile" is opened the first time. Neither does it when you 
do the following:

- open Writer
- create a new Writer document (so you're in the second window 
now)
- in this second window, open "bugfile"
- click open again, open "copy of bugfile"

This 
procedure did never crash so far, although the only difference is creating an empty document 
before the procedure described first.

Another thing I found out: For testing, I split the 
file into two parts (see zip file). Both can be opened in any combination without problems. Now 
follow these steps:

- create a new file in Writer
- select the entire contents of "first half" 
and paste it into the new file
- repeat for "second half" (append to the new file)
- save the new 
file (e.g. "bugfile reassembled")

The new file shows the same behaviour as "bugfile", 
although both parts load normally.

The tables resulted from copy-and-paste operations from 
several sources: SPSS 10/11 data and output, Excel, OOo Spreadsheet. Inserting always went 
without problems and worked the same way for all programs.