CS4 on WinXP ignores keyboard input?

After installing the 6.0.3 update for InDesign CS4 on WinXP, I've noticed that sometimes it won't respond to keyboard input. The problem seems to go away temporarily when I switch to another application window and switch right back to InDesign, or when I use the mouse to switch between open documents in InDesign. Installing the 6.0.4 update didn't resolve the problem. Has anyone else experienced this?

It was a longshot, but I thought it worth a mention. Even though I'm perfectly familar with the behavior I sometimes forget and wonder why my keyboard doesn't work.
Incidentally, Windows stock CJK IMEs stick with the application. If I type English in InDesign but then Alt-Tab to Firefox to Google a Chinese expression, InDesign retains English input, and Firefox retains Chinese, until I change either, separately.
Do you use either a wireless keyboard or a KVM? I've had unresponsive keyboard problems with both; I rarely use a wireless keyboard, but I rely on a KVM to share my big screen. With USB, sometimes unplugging and plugging back in can help -- and I keep a USB keyboard handy just in case. But unlike IMEs, that would be a system-wide issue -- not relevent here.
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