[libreoffice-users] Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

Hi,

We have a generic system image with both MS Office and (at my insistence)
LibreOffice.  Previously we had the "Go" flavor of OpenOffice.  I first
noticed something was wrong when I uninstalled Go-OO and installed LO.  I
did not agree to making LO the default handler for MS Office documents
(though I wanted to :p ).  Nonetheless, many (but not all) MS Office
document types were being handled by LO (which we didn't discover until
after generating the default user profile).  

My less OSS friendly colleagues decided it was LO's install process that was
at fault and uninstalled it while arguing that it shouldn't be installed in
the first place.  That just made it worse because then additional MS Office
file types were "broken".  Running a repair-install of MS Office 2010 fixes
the problem, but only for the currently logged in user - all existing users
(and any future users if the default profile isn't re-generated) have .doc
files that open in WordPad, and .xls files that have no association.

I first tried to fix the problem in the Windows File Types settings on
machines that still had LO, but found for example that "DOC" files were
identified as "Microsoft Word Document" to be opened with LO.  Changing the
"Opens With" app to MS Word would change the file type to "DOC File" without
a full description. 

This appears to affect XP and not Win7 and I can fix our image (with a lot
of hassle), but I think this is a problem that needs to be addressed.  Since
there has got to be people out there who have MS Office, and tried and
uninstalled LO (or Go-OO), I'm actually surprised there hasn't been anyone
else (that I can find) who has screamed about their file types left to hang
in the breeze.  Has anyone else seen this issue and/or have suggestions on
what happened or how to fix it more easily (for existing users)?

Thanks.

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