Swatch libraries suddenly unavailable

Having the strangest problem. When I want to edit or create a new swatch, two strange things are happening:
1) in the pull down list of swatch libraries, the list repeats several times ... so it looks as if there are dozens and dozens of libraries, when in fact it's the same standard ones scrolling by over and over.
2) no matter which one I select, Trumatch pops up. So I can select Trumatch colors to my heart's content (something I've never wanted to do), but cannot select a pantone, or even a CMYK breakdown.
I've gone into Indesign's application folder and tried temporarily removing the Trumatch library, and then all the swatch libraries. Doesn't fix it. Neither does deleting prefs. I've restarted Indesign several times, restarted the computer, run all kinds of system maintenance routines. Nada.
Any thoughts?
If the answer is "re-install indesign," is there a simple way I can preserve some of my preferences, like my palette layouts?
Thanks so much.

You don't need to reinstall, just replace the prefs, but you do need to do it correctly. See Replace Your Preferences
If you do want to backup your workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, find/change queries, and a lot of other things, you'll find them in your user profile/library.

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