Indesign cant export pdf?

I have adobe Indesign CS6 and Creative Cloud. Using mac OSX.
I used to have to close the preview application that I viewed it in but that doesnt work anymore. I have to save it as a new file everytime. Please Help!

Looks like most likely you are trying to save to a folder that you don't have write privileges in, or the PDF is a replacement and the original is open someplace (or ID thinks it is).

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Hi all,
I am part of a small company, we recently bought CS3 Design Standard for 3 new G5 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz iMacs, all have 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory, but sadly Illustrator and Indesign just kept quitting, so we were forced to updrade to CS4, a cost we could have done with out, but the problem persists. We Then upgraded our Suitcase to Fusion 2, as Fusion 1's auto activate doesnt work with CS4.
Every time we try to export artwork from Indesign to a pdf format Indesign either hangs or just quits, i have had this happen well over 20 times in 1 day, we really like the style of Indesign CS4 and hope someone, anyone, can help us out.
On a different note, none of the computers can access the Adobe website, the firewalls and routers/modem dont have any sites blocked yet www.adobe.com is the only one we can not access, any ideas??
Thanks for your time.

Here is the crash report if this helps anyone.
Process: Adobe InDesign CS4 [46404]
Path: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS4/Adobe InDesign CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS4
Identifier: com.adobe.InDesign
Version: 6.0.0.352 (6000)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [75]
Date/Time: 2009-02-03 17:23:00.514 +0000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000000b
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0x550dd9cb 0 + 1426971083
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0 ??? 0x800bc1c6 0 + 2148254150
1 ??? 0x800c39bc 0 + 2148284860
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