Bouncing logo icon in dock, but will not launch

For some unknown reason, both my Photoshop and Indesign CS3 programs (running on my PowerBook Titanium) will not launch. Both logo icons bounce in the dock for a few seconds, then stop without any windows diplaying...
Anone here experience the same issue?... or is this just a clever way of Adobe pushing you toward yet another upgrade?
Thanks!

Have you tried resetting the program preferences? Hold down Ctrl+Option+Shift+Command as you launch InDesign. It's a long shot, I guess.
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