Erroneous behavior of return keys in Indesign CS5

Strange and reproducable serious error of Indesign CS5: Pressing the main return key within a text paragraph doesn't enter a line break but a "new column" break making all text below disappear (and being pushed to the next column or linked text frame), pressing the enter key of the numeric pad strangely enters the "end nested paragraph here" symbol. Trashing preferences (via holding Shift-ctrl-alt-cmd on startup) doesn't help. I managed to get the main return key to work through a custom keybord definition, but it doesn't work with the enter key of the numeric pad (the last key on the bottom right).
I'm using the trial version of Indesign CS5 on Mac OS X 10.6.3 in German and expect the master collection package I ordered in the mail every day - would be great if Adobe provided a fix to this problem soon.
Am I the only one experiencing this problem and is it somehow connected to my particular installation or is this a common error?

Currently, we believe this issue only to affect only the Macintosh OS, German and Swedish versions of InDesign and InCopy CS5. We have published the following KB docs:
English - http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_cpsid_84345_en-us
German - http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_cpsid_84345_de-de
Swedish - http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_cpsid_84345_sv-se

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