In Design CS4 freezes

I wanted to post a solution to this problem- considering it seems to be common and I spent many hours trying to resolve this. 
I had installed CS4 design premium and all programs worked except In Design.  Every time I opened it and tried to create a new doc the dreaded spinning ball...every time I tried to open a file ....the dreaded spinning ball.   I spent three days searching the forums and tried all the recommended solutions with no result.  Finally called tech support.  After 45 minutes of trying various things - we finally came up with a work around.  Something I never would have anticipated.   Went to application>InDesign folder>indesign launcher.  Right clicked on the launcher and went to "get info".  There is a check box for Open Using Rosetta.  If it is greyed out just close the window and open it again and the check box should be available.  check this box and voila In Design finally worked.  Apparently it bypasses the intel features as a workaround.  Hopefully they will come up with some type of real fix down the road.

Did you try removing the SING file amongst the solutions?
Do a search for SING in here, I think. Apparently some people have had luck deleting some pref or plugin with that name. I can't recall exactly what it was, but it is worth a try. You can read about it here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1290475#1290475
Dave is correct--that's a very painful approach from a speed standpoint. We are still using all G5's here because we're not yet allowed to upgrade to CS3 even by one of our clients. My calculations indicated that in CS2 at least, a 2.66ghz Mac Pro was running only slightly faster than a 1ghz G4 for a lot of operations (when running in Rosetta mode).

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