Cannot open portfolio - File freezes indesign

Well I have been working on my portfolio for a month now and was resizing something and the program crashed. Whenever I try to open it, InDesign immediately crashes again. I have tried copy/pasting it, renaming it, moving it, deleting the auto-recovery file and everything. The only thing I have been able to do is to open a new document and place uneditable images of the file. BUT - the page I was editing when it crashed won't place either, it crashes the computer just the same. So apparently its just that one page, and I know which one, but I have no way of cutting it out that I know of.
Is there any way I can get this file open? I really really would like it back and I don't care if I have to delete that page to get it.

Robert Levine, "InDesign - need a "Fix my Corrupted File" Upload Service" #1, 18 Oct 2007 6:58 am
Read the above thread. It's probably your best hope.

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