InDesign Contact Sheet not working in CS 2

I a computer at work with CS 2 and Vista on it. Everything is fully up to date. When I try to run the contact sheet script from the tools menu it brings up a dialog box saying "Starting..." (if InDesign isn't open it will open it) and then it just sits there for about 2 mins and then it stops. InDesign doesn't even start a new document.
Anybody have any ideas as to what is going on and how I might be able to fix it? (and yes I am using it correctly... have been using CS 2 for years and have used this feature many other times in past jobs)
Thanks

I have moved the post to http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbaa316.3c062841 to see if I get a better response.

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Im sorry for double posting (I have already posted this before at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c061ba7/1 but nobody has replied... this area may me mor appropriate anyway.
I a computer at work with CS 2 and Vista on it. Everything is fully up to date. When I try to run the contact sheet script from the tools menu it brings up a dialog box saying "Starting..." (if InDesign isn't open it will open it) and then it just sits there for about 2 mins and then it stops. InDesign doesn't even start a new document.
Anybody have any ideas as to what is going on and how I might be able to fix it? (and yes I am using it correctly... have been using CS 2 for years and have used this feature many other times in past jobs)
Thanks

We have had this problem at work for a couple of years, with no resolution from Adobe. On our Macs it comes and goes - sometimes they can do the contact sheets and sometimes they can't. On the PCs it either works or it doesn't. In our unfortunate experience, uninstalling CS2 and then re-installing doesn't help. However, it's working like a dream since we upgraded to CS3 (except for the little fact that it is creating frames around every image - trying to find a resolution for that, hence trawling the forums for info)!

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I downloaded optional filters and I tried in to read me files path but it doesn't work.
Now I find a new path and put in the "bridge Startup Scripts" file there. They working perfectly.
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... /Program Files(x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Bridge CS5 Exkensions/Adobe Output Module/Resources/Scripts
Copy all files and folders "PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US/Bridge Sturtup Scripts" paste in to this folder at the path
... /Program Files(x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Bridge CS5 Exkensions/Adobe Output Module/Resources/Scripts
enjoy ....

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Lisa,
When I was writing that script, I chose to make it's dialog a palette rather than a dialog so that the user could modify the selected images while the palette was showing.
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HEllo
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HEllo
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http://blog.gilbertconsulting.com/2007/06/create-contact-sheets-in-indesign.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/scratchdisk/2007/05/customized_inde.html
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I just upgraded to CS3 from CS2.
I am trying to use Bridge to create InDesign contact sheets.
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It can be a little convoluted from a logic perspective, but search for "filename does not equal" and, to find all files, set the value to something stupid like "#@#@#@#@"
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The "Find" button encouraged people to not use Bridge to its best advantage. I got a number of emails from folks wanting more functionality in the "Find" button than was possible (via scripting) when everything they needed was available in Bridge!
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if it can place multple files at their original size without having to place just one per page
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