CS3 InDesign and Vista

Indesign worked fine on my computer running XP, but when I installed Vista I ran into problems. The program starts up and opens documents with no problems. Once the document is open I cannot do anything. I cannot use any of the tools on the tool bar or the fly out menus. Ex: I cannot select the type tool or change layers within a document. Please help.

First thing to try is replacing your preferences. http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751 001ea8cb3f-6d1e.html

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