CS6 problems with using Zapf Dingbats font

The same font file works perfectly in QXpress (9.5.3) but not in Illustrator (16.0.0) and even less signs show in InDesign (8.0).
I work in Mac OS 10.6.8.
My old ITC Zapf Dingbats was a PS Type 1 font from the last century, version 001.001. (I have not used Dingbats in InDesign yet. I dug up QuarkXPress again today to check and all dingbats work fine there while) InDesign only displays half of them. Then I bought an OTF (Version 2.066;PS 005.000;hotconv 1.0.67;makeotf.lib2.5.33168) of this font today and installed it – with worse results: next to none display in ID.
(I test with a font size of 18 pt.)
I can reach all dingbats via the Glyphs command though, but that's not the idea, is it? They should be under the keys for quick access!
Might have something to do with InDesign's font substitution settings but I don't know where to access them.
(There was a similar question – https://forums.adobe.com/message/1280829#1280829 – but that was over six years ago. I hope there is a smarter solution by now…)
Fred

I never even knew there was a Dingbat fix, as I never had a problem with the font and Frame before.
In Frame 8 all the characters disappeared. When I print to a pdf, I get an error message thusly:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: ZapfDingbats not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
Stack:
/Font
(ZapfDingbats)
false
/2
0
/F0
false
/ZapfDingbats
I get no such error message with Frame 7.
Now, I took my elderly Zapf Dingbats font and ran it through Fontographer--I didn't change a thing, I just generated a new Type 1 font. Frame 8 was happy with that one, but Frame 7 displayed some other font instead. I have no idea what the font is, it kinda looks like Arial.
Scratching head...

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I never even knew there was a Dingbat fix, as I never had a problem with the font and Frame before.
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false
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