Can't open InDesign files created on my mac on my pc

I have both a Mac (@ home) and a PC (@ work). I recently installed CS5 Standard on both machines. Everything works great until I try opening something I've created on the Mac at home on my PC at work.  It tells me that I'm missing a plug in.  I did a standard install on both machines and the files I'm working with are all relatively simple.  Not sure what I need to do to make sure that I can work seamlessly cross platform.  I am aware that the fonts situation can be dicey going from machine to machine, but I expected to at least to be able to open files.  Can anyone help me?
Angela

This is the only thing you can do unless you want to keep using an IDML workflow which I don’t recommend.
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