I don’t know how long this offer will last.
But you can download Softmaker Office 2008 for free and do something good together with this:
http://www.loadandhelp.de/home-en.html
Softmaker Office is a Microsoft Office Clone from a german company and it’s really slick and fast.
It does not have all components of MS Office, but for home use it’s perfect.
And quite a lot faster than OpenOffice.org! Speed is comparable to Office 2003. Maybe faster
Check out if this is something for you.