Icc profiles, OS 10.6 & InDesign CS4

I have been using InDesign (various versions) for years with many icc profiles, some custom, some canned.  I recently bought a MACPro with OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and the latest Adobe Creative Suite (CS4 Design Premium). Everything works fine with Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. But with InDesign, I can no longer choose icc profiles for printing on my Epson Stylus Pro 4000. Does anyone have any suggestions that might make InDesign useful again? I reinstalled InDesign CS2 just to see if it could read the profiles using OSX 10.6 but to no avail. I still have my old MAC tower but I would prefer not to return to that.
RWW

rww0001* wrote:
Thought you might be interested in how Adobe support responded to my inquiry. Because the solution presented here worked, I am hesitant to redo the fix presented by Adobe. But your comments would be interesting.
FROM ADOBE:
We understand that your InDesign is not showing the icc profiles. We
have worked on your Issue and recommend you to follow the steps given
below :-
1. Please Login as Administrator before you start.
2. ReCreating InDesign Preference files.
a. Quit InDesign.
b. Drag the "Version 6.0" folder from Users/[user
name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/ to the desktop.
c. Drag the "Version 6.0" folder from Users/[user
name]/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign/ to the desktop.
d. Restart InDesign.
Anybody try this? Does it work.
Since I did a clean install partition and a clean install of CS4 and had the same behavior of the profiles not showing up, I seriously have my doubts about this. Seems like a canned answers from someone who has no idea what the issue even is.

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