well this turned out to be a colorful thread
As for OO, doesn't that belong to evil Larry now? Doesn't the OO version of the free and just have a new name?
BTW, don't complain about eScape being bossy, InDesign CS5.5 will let you do anything you like, and then simply crash on epub export. No error handling for any number of failures there...
I have to keep separate versions of InDesign documents - those safe for epub and those with the formatting I wanted...
And since Adobe doesn't bother responding in their own support forums (unanswered posts about epub export crashes from 2010 there), I'm looking forward to the kind people from eScape teaching me a few more details about how far i might be able to go...