Hand Tool gets stuck... Help?

Hiya,
In my CS4, the hand tool likes to come on and stay on so you can't select any other tool - in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. If you restart the program the hand tool remains on. The only solution that has successfully worked is restarting the computer. Anyone encounter this or have a solution? Once the Escape key worked in InDesign, but it hasn't worked since.
- Miss Dishy.

It seems to be a problem after viewing a Flash file fullscreen. Just press the spacebar to reset it.

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