CS4 text wrap over anchored object

Every time I place an anchored object (doesn't matter if it's graphic or text frame) and apply text wrap, Indesign freezes permanently and only solution is killing it via task manager.
I opened CS3 file with anchored objects w/ txt wrap and the same freeze happens when trying to move, delete or apply different wrap settings to object.
It never happened in previous version of ID on my machine.
Any solution to this problem? Thanks.
My PC conf.:
AMD x2 2.7
2GB RAM
Vista 32bit

The first thing to try is replacing your preferences.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f86173837510 01ea8cb3f-6d1e.html

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In order to place text boxes relative to the spine, I have placed them as anchored objects.
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Jongware,
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g'day there.
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i feel strange answering my own question, but i stumbled across this older applescript and it seemed to do the trick, so thought i'd put it out there.
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Granted I never learned InDesign the way I should. Once upon a time I fared well with Aldus Pagemaker. But I've just spent the last two hours trying to resolve a massive gap in my knowledge and I can't do it. I'm exasperated and desperate for help.
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What happens:
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Conclusion:
I am retarded. I even went through Lynda's example here: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0073 I was able to place my object in her document and watch the text flow around the text wrapped graphic.
I read the help docs (I'm a big fan of reading).
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http://www.xandria.ca/test01.indd

Alrighty, this is bizarre. I couldn't leave well enough alone and I'm still trying to hammer this one out. But I just followed my first method described in the original message and then...
I clicked and dragged the edge of my graphic and the text began to flow around it and it moves with the text.
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// Jongware, 15-Jul-2010
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