Can't assign PPD in Print dialog or preset (ID CS5, Mac OS X 10.6)

I've been having some trouble recently with ID CS5 resetting itself from time to time as if I'd trashed the Preferences: it loses all Recent files, presets, etc. Fortunately I'd exported presets from CS4 when I upgraded, but there are two problems with Print presets. (1) The order is scrambled when I load the exported file, and (2) it says something like "The PPD you want is unavailable. Use Generic PPD?" There are only two choices, Yes and Cancel, neither of which I really want. When I try to re-create a Print preset, or indeed when I try to start from scratch in the Print dialog, the PPD pop-up is greyed out for all of my printers; I can't select anything, and they're not already identified with the printers as they always used to be. The printers are nothing unusual: a Brother, an Epson, and a Hewlett-Packard, all with up-to-date drivers and PPDs in HD/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources. I've tried copying the PPDs to Applications/Adobe Creative Suite CS5/Adobe InDesign CS5/Presets/PPDS (having created the last folder and used that capitalization, following advice in another thread), but with no result. Since the PPDs in the HD Library are .gz archives, I tried expanding them in the ID CS5 folder, but that hasn't helped either.
Any advice? I should emphasize that I am NOT trying to print to PostScript or PDF – I've followed those threads and get the message. I'm talking about PPDs for physical printers!
ID CS5 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.5, Mac Pro 8-core 3GHz

Wow, thank you!!! I actually did search pretty thoroughly on the web as well as a moderate search these forums, but oddly enough, I somehow overlooked that thread. Funny, as it was only from several days ago.
My computer never had ADPDF9.PPD in the first place. Any clue why this is?
Many thanks,
T

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