Fiendish Formatting and Wizarding Woes

[Short Circuit]

Two separate questions here:

First, where can I read up on creating field formats? I thought I installed all the relevant Debian OOo2 packages, but clicking on "Help" tells me "The help system could not be started.//The help file for this topic is not installed.." In the end, I want to create a format for email addresses. (In regex, it would look something like ".*@.*" or "*@*", depending on the implementation.)

Second, when I try to use the form wizard, clicking on "Finish" doesn't do anything. It doesn't close the window, and it doesn't create a form. gkrellm reports the CPU usage barely registers. If this is a bug, do I report it to the Debian maintainer or somewhere else? And in the mean time, where can I read up on creating forms in Design view?