Cannot drag objects in indesgn cs3

Hi Everyone,
Suddenly I am not able to drag objects in indesign file. I can move it using key arrows, I can resize it by draging side squares, but I cannot move it using a mouse.
Any guesses?
I am on PS, Vista, CS3
Thanks a lot in advance.

The strangest thing - I appear to be back up and running again as usual on my previous account.
BTW - yes, I had tried trashing the InDesign preferences previously but that didn't work.
But I have 2 Macs - new, which I am currently on, and old, which I use as a back up.
Last week I was using my old Mac as someone else was temporarily on my new one.
I therefore had InDesign running on that machine AND Google Chrome was also running.
As I mentioned previously, I do not have Google Chrome running on my new Mac.
I thought I would just try quitting Chrome on the old Mac to check that this wasn't the issue, even though it is on another Mac, and a few minutes later my new machine is back to normal!
Could the Chrome/InDesign issue on my other Mac have been causing the problem on my new Mac via the Creative Cloud account?
I have everything crossed that this was the issue and that it won't happen again but it seems very odd - or maybe I just don't enough about this all and it is obvious to you - apologies if this is the case and I should have tried it earlier.

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638 MB
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