Idml from CS5 cannot be open on same machine

A idml from CS5 cannot be opened on the machine where it was made neither on CS4 nor on CS5.
„The file xxx.idml can not be opened. The file format is not supported by AdobeInDesign, a lack of support necessary add-on module or the file is already open inanother application.“
Whats up?

Paul:
Well, this is quite peculiar. Looking at your IDML file (which is just a .zip file), the "problem" appears to be with designmap.xml. Your designmap begins:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?aid style="50" type="pi_for_SaveBackINX" readerVersion="6.0" featureSet="257" product="7.0(533)" ?>
<Document xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/idml/1.0/packaging" DOMVersion="7.0"...
The second line is an XML processing-instruction that Adobe doesn't really document very well. Since its a processing instruction, its outside the formal scope of the XML document and they don't really need to document it to have a conformant XML grammar.
In a normal IDML file, it looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?aid style="50" type="document" readerVersion="6.0" featureSet="257" product="7.0(533)" ?>
<Document xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/idml/1.0/packaging" DOMVersion="7.0"...
See the difference? Yours has type="pi_for_SaveBackINX" and mine has type="document".
Sure enough, changing it to type=document and zipping it back up lets me open your IDML file without errors.
It's not clear what all the types are, though. Appendix B of the IDML spec gives us examples of the major IDML types. Normally they are type=document, they can also be type snippet (both for snippets and ICML). Google and the SDK are both silent on this.
Appendix C of the IDML spec (oh, right; that's at Adobe InDesign CS5 IDML Language Specification) indicates that "IDML defaults are stored in the file Predef.iddx, which is stored inside the Default folder inside the Presets folder in the InDesign application folder."
So, take a look at /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5/Preset/default/Predef.iddx. Does it have type="document"?
In my InDesign, SaveBackINX appears in two places:
$ pwd
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i savebackinx /dev/null
Binary file ./Plug-Ins/Filters/SaveBack.InDesignPlugin/Versions/A/Resources/idrc_PMST/1101.idrc matches
Binary file ./Plug-Ins/Filters/SaveBack.InDesignPlugin/Versions/A/SaveBack matches
I'm not really sure when this plugin gets used...
Still scratching my head on how this could happen to you though...

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