Fonts in OpenOffice

Hey all, I was wondering if someone could explain to me (or point me to an article on) fonts in a linux environment.

I have fonts working on Xorg 6.7.0 but OpenOffice 1.1.3 does not see any of them. This is getting to be very frustrating, and I was wondering if anyone had any answers for me? Or ideas?

I am running:
KDE 3.3.1
Xorg 6.7.0

Fonts seem to be working in KDE just fine...just open office..there are like, 15 fonts in the list. Any ideas?

PS: I have diddled around with google a bit, but I am unsure about the fonts, so I am a little unsure what to search for.

SOLVED:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=252149&highlight=openoffice+font

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=258903&highlight=openoffice+font

The second link is sort of neat. I'm gonna emerge that sucker tonight (USE="-gnome +java" emerge openoffice-ximian)