Cannot edit text in Master Page

I don't work in InDesign often. I had created a template file for a book back in December of 2011 (originally created in CS3). I opened this file in CS6 today and did a Save As. Now it's time to edit a few things to customize it for this new book. So, I went into the Master Pages to tweak some things. But, I can't edit any text. I can click on some photos (not all), but no text is selectable or editable. What in the world has happened to my file?
I also went back to the final files for the book I did in December (not the template file, the actual working files). Those give me the same behavior. Text that should have been editable is not even selectable. Again, some photos can be selected and moved, etc. but no text/text boxes.
Is there some conversion that takes place opening a CS3 file in CS6 that is causing this to happen? How do I fix it?
Thanks,
Matt Tyree

The corrupted ID CS2 document has now been rebuilt using tagged text conversions, and is now only 3Mb, with .INX > .INDD conversions appearing to reducing the .INDD file size, rather than bloating each time.
However, the Acrobat X Pro 'Compare Documents' feature is less helpful than before (v6 Pro), e.g. showing spurious differences such as:
[Old text]: "personally-addressed"
[New text]: "personally-addressed"
and oddities like (perhaps flagging ID tagged text problems):
[Old text]: " METHODOLOGY"
[New text]: " MetHoDoLoGY"
[Old text]: " [?993 ]"
[New text]: " [?993]"
? = 'box corner' symbol. As this unanswered forum poster from 2011 says, 'Compare Documents' is too sensitive:
Acrobat X Pro Compare Documents To Sensitive
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/882888
My ID report co-author is not interested in 'style' differences, only word/alphabetic variations.

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