Change menu display font in Indesign cs6?

I recently got Adobe Creative Suite 6 and am having problems with InDesign. When I open the program and am prompted for file size etc... the display font is Harrington (or something curly like that). The same goes for the stroke menu and font menu. Is there a way to change this display/default font?

My question isn't about how to change the default font when using the text tool but how to change the display fonts for all menus. In the picture posted before I was showing you the drop down menus to point out the Harrington font used. In previous versions of Indesign that font was something basic and easy to read like Arial or Helvetica.
Picture 1 is of Illustrator CS6. The font for space where I enter information (ex. Name : Untitled-1 ... Number of Artboards: 1 etc.) is a Arial but in Picture 2 the same fields are in Harrington - is there a way to change this to be like picture one?

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http://im24.gulfup.com/2012-05-22/1337673524451.png
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