Cursor flickering (with video)

Got some really bad cursor flickering in InDesign CS 5.5 (also kind of happening in Photoshop)
I looked around and some people have suggested it's the mouse, but if it was the mouse it would be causing issues in other programs. Anyway, I recorded a video of it happening. Happens when I select different tools as well as when I mouse over some of the fields at the top of the window.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7lL91MdGkw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Any thoughts?

Props to whoever can figure out what I'm designing based on that layout =)

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