Direct black arrow (select tool) suddenly stopped responding

I have been using cs3 for years and all of a sudden the direct selection arrow stopped working. When I click on it in  the toolbox nothing happens, the icon does not change and I cannot select an object. I read that the solution might be to reset preferences  with shift/control alt. When I do that absolutely nothing changes. I am experiencing this problem whether it is a new document or an existing file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and updating. Everything is still working as it should on my laptop which is also running on windows 7.

sugene yoo,
>but it suddenly not working. Did I press wrong key by accident or something?
Actually, assuming the Selection Tool now selects, it started working, so you must have pressed the right key or something.

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