InDesign CS 5corrupting file

Hi there,
I'm running InDesign CS5 on Windows 7.
Last month, I had one file that became corrupt. And by that I mean when I went to open the file I immediately got the "InDesign CS5 has stopped working message." The file never appeared to open. I had the option to either have it look for solution online (at which point it just closed the program) or close the program.
If I try and launch InDesign again it gives me the "inDesign CS5 has stopped working" message again.
If I try and launch it after that, it will tell me that the recovery failed last time I tried to open the document and would I like to start recovery.
If I choose yes, I get the "InDesign CS5 has stopped working" message again.
The file will not open as a copy either. The file was toast. I also tried opening the files on a co-worker's computer and that didn't work.
Then, this week I had the same thing happen to TWO more files. Same problem. The files appear to be toast.
Last night I backed up all my data again so when my current file had that problem I tried to open my back up file. Same problem!
I'm freaking out because I'm scared to work on any of my files for fear they will become corrupted.
I don't know what it doesn't like about the files. Two of the files were 8 page newsletters, and one was a 27 page file.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Okay. Here is an update. I did talk to Adobe support last week. They said it is not a problem with InDesign and that it could be caused by corrupt fonts or plug ins.
I already removed the only plug in I had installed and I have still had corruptions since.
I also used font doctor to scan my files. It gave me a list of 10 or so fonts that had bad table data, so I removed those fonts. Also, none of the files that have corrupted share the same fonts so is it possible that a font that is not in use in the document is still corrupting it? And only corrupting some files, but not all the files?
Since then, I have had a few more issues.
On Friday InDesign crashed twice - and by that I mean that when I was working on it a file I got the "InDesign has stopped working..." message. However, after I closed the program and reopened it, the file I was working on was fine.
Then Yesterday, I had a small two page file that worked on, saved, and closed. A few hours later I went to reopen the file and the icon for the file was no longer InDesign. When I try and open it it gave me a message that said "InDesign cannot open the file...it could be a missing plug in or the file could be open in another application." I tried opening a copy of the file. Same thing. So it's a another corrupt file, but in a new way than last time.
So I'm thinking I should remove and reinstall InDesign. I'm also wondering if I should restore my machine to system fonts only and then add the fonts back as needed.

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