CS5: What could be causing my CPU to spike?

Machine Specs:
Mac OSX 10.6.6
2.66GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor
8GB RAM
Running Adobe CS5 Design Standard
Background story:
I have inherited a magazine from a co-worker. The magazine has been worked on for years by our business and has undergone some changes, but kept its core design/layout. From my observations, before each issue the magazine is stripped and resaved to keep the content and advertising that remains constant. There's a large collection of swatches and styles, some that are used, some that are not. Some ads are created inside the document, but most are placed PDFs. Even some vector logos are imported directly to the document through copy/paste. In the past, the document has been having some issues (crashing, trouble opening) on my co-worker's computer, but has been workable. (He has a 3.3GHz processor, if that helps.)
My problem:
I tried opening the document, and immediately the CPU usage in the my activity monitor jumped to 100%. There's around 5GB of free memory, but the CPU spikes. Indesign will go into 'Not Responding' and not do a thing. If I force quit and re-open the application, the file I intended to open is there as if it was recovered from a program crash. I have tried opening an IDML file created of the same document to ecounter the same problem. Thirdly, I created a new document at the same specs, and imported all styles/swatches and moved the pages fro mthe original document. Same problem once I closed and tried to reopen the document. It's obvious that there is something lurking in this file which is causing problems.
My possible Solutions:
1. Find the problem and eliminate it. This would obviously be best, because there is quite a lot of things in this document to keep.
2. Make do with having to force quit Indesign and reopen it to open the file. This idea makes me a little uncomfortable, but I'm sure that saving before closing would make sure nothing is lost in the recovery, right?
3. Create a new document and layout from scratch, using only required swatches and styles and copy/pasting elements from the other document when required. This may take a little more time than other issues, but could be a healthy step forward.
Regardless of the solution, it has been interesting (and rage-inducing) trying to find what the possible problem could be. Does anyone have any ideas, or has anyone encountered the same problem?

What you have right now is a disaster waiting to happen. It's probably impossible to say with any certainly where the problem is at this point. Repeatedly saving the same document issue after issue allows little corruptions to build up and multiply until one time it will simply fail altogether.
It it were my job, I'd open the file as a copy, then IMMEDIATELY export to .idml. If there are no CS5 -only features in use I'd open that in CS4 and export again, this time to .inx. Open that, or the .idml if you can't make the .inx, in CS5 and save as a reference file with a new name. Hopefully any corrupt styles have been cleaned up. Next I'd start a brand new file with the same page size. If there aren't a huge number to do, I'd recreate all the master pages from scratch, but if that's not practical you can add them in the next step.
Add the new file and the reference file to a Book file, and set the reference as the synch source. Add Master pages to the list of things to synchronize if you didn't make them by hand, then make sure everything else is checked and synch the book, but don't do any numbering updates. Save the new file as a TEMPLATE. Add anything to the template that will remain the same over multiple issues, and start each new issue going forward by opeing the template and saving as the new issue. Stop recycling the old issue over and over.
You can add ads to the template, but I wouldn't since they really arn't the sort of thing that is "static." To speed things up you can make a library or a folder of snippets for them and drag them into each new issue as necessary. This won't really take any longer, once it's set up, than the time it takes to remove unwanted content now. By using the template you are always starting with a fresh second-generaztion copy, which hopefully is clean. If you still find you are having trouble, you may have to rebuild all of your styles from scratch as well. and replace the ones you imported.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
StopWatch class to
return a negative v alue?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
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