CS3 inDesign - select-tool is not working

Hi,
I just installed inDesign CS3 on Windows Vista Enterprise.
On the toolbar on the left, I can not click the first icon (select). When I change to toolbar to 2-colums, I can not click the first two icons (select and direct-select). It seems that the first row is not clickable.
I already installed the update to inDesign CS3 5.0.4, but the problem still exists.
The only way I found is to use "V" and "A" on the keyboard. This works.
Is there any fix for this problem, or has anyone a idea, what could be wrong?
Thomas

Hi,
thank you. But the doc is for CS4 - I use CS3.
The folder
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\InDesign Shortcut Sets\en_US
does not exist here.
I have only
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS3\Presets\InDesign Shortcut Sets\
but in these folder are no subfolders. There are only 3 files:
Standard.indk
Tastaturbefehle Pagemaker 7.0.indk
Tastaturbefehle QuarkXPress 4.0.indk
I searched the program-folder for folders like de_DE or en_US, but I could not find any!
What can I do?

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