How do you rate 5 seconds startup time for Openoffice.org on a HP Pavilion 8882. Some times it feels slow, but what can I expect of a 1.2Ghz CPU?

I think 5s is quite good. Takes longer then that in my Pentium 4 - 2GHZ. I have only 256 RAM in this machine, however. Either way, OpenOffice has always been slow to start up, but I found it pretty damn good if 1 - You don't need 100% compatibility with MS Office and 2 - You are not trying to import _huge_ MS files.

If the open time botters you, give a shot to applications such as Abiword (word processor) and gnumeric (spreadsheet).

Regards!

5 seconds
Wow, I wish - on my 500 MHz K6-2 running either SuSE 9.2 & KDE 3.3, or Windows 98SE, it took over a minute...

Read This
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8308

If it takes too long to start try using:
"OpenOffice.org Quickstarter is a small application that runs in the KDE SystemTray. It is used to quickly start the different OpenOffice.org modules without having to go through the K-Menu. Instead of just starting of applications, you can also select multiple files in the usual opendialog provided by KDE to open them in OpenOffice.org, use a history of recently opened files, configure the app to do one of the above described functions on a simple double click, and use the app to keep a hidden instance of OpenOffice.org in memory to achieve much shorter startup times of the OpenOffice.org modules."
http://freshmeat.net/projects/oooqs/?topic_id=57%2C131

Takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds to start on my system 1.8Mhz Athlon, 512MG ram.

an other thing you can do is go into the options and under RAM increase the 5M to 30 or 50M, this will greatly increase the startup times even in windows.