CS3 Won't print or make PDF

I have a 48 page document I created since upgrading to Windows 7. It will not allow me to print it out or make a PDF of it- I have to do about 8 pages at a time. Preflight indicates no issues, and a similar document created last year will print fine. Have restarted with a new file twice- same issue. Other files created since the upgrade also work. I have had numerous different error messages from JPEG is corrupt (checked all and no problems) to out of memory (plenty of memory) to this problem signature:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:                        APPCRASH
Application Name:                             InDesign.exe
Application Version:                           5.0.4.682
Application Timestamp:                    48ca2a28
Fault Module Name:                          AGM.dll
Fault Module Version:                        4.17.27.1
Fault Module Timestamp:                 465f29b3
Exception Code:                                  c0000005
Exception Offset:                                0007a7f3
OS Version:                                          6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID:                                             1033
Additional Information 1:                  0a9e
Additional Information 2:                  0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:                  0a9e
Additional Information 4:                  0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Not sure if the new OS is the issue or what. I am about to pull my hair out- help!

That is one of the options we are looking at, wasn't sure if it was an OS problem or something else. Any idea how CS5 runs with
7?

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