Load the attached Word document in Word and in OOo. Observe the table completely fail to do anything sensible in OOo; compare with how Word shows it.
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Note also the missing background image in the front 'page'
This is a fairly well known problem, which isn't the import filters fault itself. There's a catch-22 here with needs a core enhancement in writer. Let's move it upstream and get it onto a To-Do list http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64268