Indesign CS5 7.0.4 crash on OS X Lion 10.7.2

Question

Hi folks, I need some help determining the issue for a constantly crashing Indesign CS5 7.0.4 (English) on OS X Lion 10.7.2. I have submitted the crash log to Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/PGtMjjAU. It seems that the crash occurs when Indesign calls the code to obtain/check the license. [Note that the CS5 Design Standard I run is fully licensed. Photoshop and Illustrator do work properly.]
So far, I have tried to completely uninstall CS5 using the uninstaller provided by Adobe and then to start Indesign before and after applying all current patches through the Adobe Updater. However, the behavior is still the same.
I have checked the permissions of the Adobe Indesign preferences folder and ruled out problems with the SING plugin. Also, I have unsuccessfully tried to start Indesign after replacing Indesign's com.adobe.amtlib folder by the one from the Photoshop directory.
I already observed the same crashing behavior before updating to Lion 10.7.2, so it should have nothing to do with the update. While none of my ideas have helped, running Indesign on the Guest account does  work!
Thanks for any help or pointers.

Answer 1

John, thanks for your post! As far as I know, InDesign CS5 has never worked for me since I have updated to Lion by doing a clean install of OS X. I did not notice this right away, because Photoshop started up okay, so I assumed the other programs of the suite would, too.
Before performing the steps you mentioned, I uninstalled the Creative Suite (with 'Deactivate' license), ran the CS Cleaner Tool and deleted all other CS5-related preferences files I could find. Additionally, I cleaned out the dyld shared cache. Then, I redownloaded the CS5 Design Standard installer and installed CS5 with the default options. Note that I'm using only the stock plugins and have no additional fonts, except the MS Office for Mac fonts, installed. Here's what I could gather from the logs:
PDApp.log - http://pastebin.com/9KHtgNqA - contains no warning/errors related to InDesign; install log CS5 Design Standard 5.0 10-21-2011.log - http://pastebin.com/LqmNVKKz - shows no errors, only unrelated warnings.
dyld output - http://pastebin.com/bV0G0SWS - shows exception after fully loading the adbeape.framework library; the crash report - http://pastebin.com/GkN2qBWQ - still has the crash at com.adobe.amtlib
After trying to run InDesign as the first of the CS5 programs, amt3.log has not been created at all; swtag.log - http://pastebin.com/4ZrdPEL6 - exists and shows no warnings/errors or crashes.
Then, I tried to run Photoshop: It starts just fine and dyld has no trouble linking the com.adobe.amtlib library: http://pastebin.com/E5XYTB5n. Photoshop also creates the amt3.log file - http://pastebin.com/LBnJKjCU - whose messages indicate that the CS5 Design Standard is licensed and was sucessfully validated/activated. swtag.log was updated, but contains similar messages to http://pastebin.com/4ZrdPEL6. However, InDesign still crashes.. Updating the whole Creative Suite to the latest patch doesn't help.
Can you spot anything in the logs?