Cursor momentarily spins when typing

When typing each letter or space in a a small InDesign doc my cursor has begun momentarily spinning (small color wheel). It does this (off and on) as long as I continue typing. With the constant appearance and disappearance of the spinning color wheel at the place of the cursor it is very difficult to concentrate. I've tried all the relevant preferances and menus to see if I accidentally turned something off or on. I have a 2.8gh Quad-Core with 24 g of RAM and a 30" Apple screen so there is no need for a processing pause while simply typing in InDesign. Any solution out there?

It's stored locally, Peter. Your suggestions did not seem to solve the problem, and I rebooted to make sure both options were functional. Thanks to your reply, though, I just discovered that this problem is isolated to this current doc and does not appear in a new InDesign doc nor my old InDesign docs. Thus I'll make a new doc and drop my text into it. I should have thought of that before. Many thanks!

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