Character Styles dialog box suddenly blank - cannot fix

Things were going funky (InDesign ignored all standard keyboard commands unless I clicked first into note pad), so I stopped, shut down and restarted the entire computer. Upon reload, my file came up, however, the character styles dialog box was blank (options to add and import etc. are still visible in the breakout to the right, but nothing appears in the box itself now matter the document).
Is there a prefs file that I can delete to restore this (much like the old aiprefs?) or is this going to require an entire uninstall of the design suite and reinstall?
Has anyone else seen this? Anyway to fix this?
EDIT: Oops here's my set up:
OS: Vista
HP Pavillion
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to avoid a reinstall if possible.
-Suzanne

OK got it... in case anyone else needs to know:
Go to: [username] > Application Data > Adobe > InDesign > Version X (your version)
Drag that entire Version 4.0 folder to your desktop and then start InDesign again. It will recreate the entire Version 4.0 folder and its myriad files. I say “drag it to the desktop” instead of deleting it because you might have finely-tuned workspaces or long lists of AutoCorrect entries that you’d like to hang on to.
Found it on the InDesign Secrets blog.

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