Arabic Problem in Indesign CS5 ME ???

Hi,
I am planning to publish a book about coins written in arabic. That's why I have to use latin and arabic letters in the same page.
I just installed trial version of Indesign (7) CS5-ME.
I creat a text box with "ME Type Tool" and choose either Adobe Arabic or Traditional Arabic font. But the letters do not connect as it should be.
Any suggestion ?

I don't have CS5 ME, but there are a few possibilities that could cause this:
1) Make sure that both Ligatures and OpenType -> Contextual Alternates are on. Neither one should have an affect, but I have a vague recollection that Contextual Alternates have to be on for the Trad Arabic font to work.
2) As Jongware points out, make sure that it's declared as Arabic - check the paragraph style too.
3) Oh jeez, I know that there are more possibilities, but I'd need to be looking at CS5 ME to tell for certain.
Note that you can't embed Trad Arabic in a PDF - it violates the font licensing. (Unless you got it from a source that was not Microsoft?)

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