CS6 Adobe Help Viewer?

I recently installed CS6 from a disc. When attempting to open InDesign Help, I get the following error message:
Adobe Help Viewer is not installed and you are not connected to the internet. Please check your internet connection, or reinstall InDesign
Having checked and reinstalled, I'm still getting that message, and similar messages for the other CS6 applications such as Dreamweaver.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Thanks -- Jeremy

It works for me this morning. Here's the top of the InDesign Help page.
You might try posting on the Community Help Application forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites/communityhelp

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