Base option grayed out

Hi,
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04. When I started up LO I see that the Base option is grayed out on the initial start up page.

I read that LO doesn’t yet work with the 64 bit jre and that the 32 bit jre should be used. Is that why Base won’t load?

If so, I can’t figure out how to get LO to recognize the jre. After downloading when I double click on the jre binary file LO tries to open it as a text file. What am I doing wrong

Is Base installed? Earlier versions of Ubuntu did not install Base by default.