Indesign 5.5 won't open after deleteing preferences and uninstall/reinstall

I have had the Design Standard 5.5 suite installed for more than a year. A couple of times I have had trouble with Indesign and have successfully gotten it working again. My Indesign stopped opening again a couple of days ago. I tried deleting the preferences and the cached items as I have done previously (based on advice in these forums) and that didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled the program and it is still not opening. When I click on it, I get to "Starting up Service Registry" and it "disappears" without opening.
Any ideas on what I can do to get this program working again?
Thanks!!

Well, I think we are getting closer! But I still need some help. I created a new user account and was able to re-login and InDesign opened just fine. But now I am not sure what to copy from my "test" user to my personal user. I tried copying these items
InDesign Defaults:Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\<Version #>\<Language>\ (Note: Prior to version 6 [CS4] the language folder is not used).
InDesign SavedDataWindows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\<Version #>\<Language>\Caches\  (Note: Prior to version 6 [CS4] the language folder is not used).
But I still can't get it to start under me. (Actually, when I went into the "Roaming" one under me, that path didn't exist. So I just copied the whole thing from my test user over there. Maybe that's the issue?
Any final guidance is appreciated. I am getting gray hairs here!
Andrea
Hi,
I had similar problem. InDesign CS5 crash at startup, all other apps work fine.
My op.system Windows XP SP3.
I solved the problem with following steps:
1. Setup another user account (must be administrative) - let say "test"
2. Login to the new account
3. Start inDesign (in my case it started)
4. Close inDesign
5. Logout
6. Login to your user account
7. Copy preference files from "Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign" to "Documents and Settings\your account\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign"
8. Start inDesign
In my case it worked. All other actions described in this forum did not.
Kind Regards,
Zbigniew

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