OpenOffice Writer: AutoComplete?

Now that I'm using Ubuntu, I'm also using OpenOffice.

However, I like Google Docs quite a bit so I've used OpenOffice sparingly.

I've had trouble with Google Docs though; the Download as Word bastardizes the document. Looks great as a pdf, not so much as a Word document. The reason for creating a Word document is for recruiters, they all seem to have some sort of application that parses the Word document and fills in your employment history and such. This would be a great place for XML and some sort of standard wouldn't it?

Anyway, in OpenOffice Writer, I type in:

November 2009

which Writer immediately turns into

11/01/09

No! Stop it!
I tried turning AutoComplete off:

Tools --> AutoCorrect

and disabling everything I can find...try again. Same result.

Reading this thread, I begin to wonder if it's like Excel...you know, you enter a date and it automatically puts it into the default date format.

Sure enough, right click on the column, select "Character" and voila! No more transformation.