If I try to export the attached drawing as EPS - either the complete page or 
just the figure - and I open the produced eps I get the following error from 
ghostscript (gs):

wumpus@hal2000:~/test$> gs eps-bug.eps
ESP Ghostscript 8.15 (2006-04-19)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
ERROR: /rangecheck in --setmiterlimit--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   0
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   
3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   
3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1136/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:136/200
(L)--   --dict:136/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 1979
ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I am quite sure that this worked with recent OO versions, although I am not 
totally sure.