InDesign crashes when trying to use Zapf Dingbats

I have a somewhat frustrating problem that seemed to come out of nowhere today — every time I try to use Zapf Dingbats in InDesign CS4, it crashes. This happens when selecting the font manually or trying to access it with the glyphs palette. I've tried deleting the preferences and restarting the machine, and it still doesn't work. I've also tried inspecting Zapf Dingbats with Font Book and it turns up OK. This font hasn't given me any trouble in the six months or so since I've installed InDesign, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what on earth is going on.
Any suggestions?

Is this in a brand-new document, or is it across the board on all documents?
I've had particularly complex documents with many style dependencies behave this way... usually cleaning the styles up has fixed it. However, in a case like that, I can use the font without issue in another document.
If it happens in all documents, and it just started happening, I'd assume that there might be something wrong with the font itself (corruption? reinstall) or perhaps your computer. Care to give us some details about your computer, OS, et cetera?

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