InDesign CS2 - missing font

Arial Black font is missing in my fonts menu. I discovered that after installing Win XP SP3, the font had a problem. Downloaded a hotfix and this didn't work, then removed the font from my Windows font folder and installed the font again. Now I have Arial Black in Microsoft Office products but still not in InDesign. I repaired InDesign installation and then uninstalled it and re-installed it. I tried suggested fixes - put the font in the Common Files folder; put the font in the InDesign Fonts folder - nothing works. I'm getting desperate since this font is used in our logo! How do I fix this problem? I'm ready to try just about anything. Thanks.

Thanks, Bob. In the meantime I had also found that advice elsewhere, as well as advice to delete (well, actually, move to an unknown location) the file C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\TypeSpt\FntNames.db - I hope that's not a problem (if it is, let me know and I'll put it back). Then I rebooted just to be sure, and fired up ID. No change - I could still see Arial and Arial Narrow in the list, but not Arial Black... but...
Wait! It isn't in the fonts list when I just pull it down (with no document involved), but when I open my old document, now it recognizes the font that is supposed to be in the document, so it is no longer complaining and pink. I don't know what of the various things I did caused that to start working, because after a few tries I had stopped opening any document when checking the fonts, concerned that there could be some legacy in the document that could have been interfering with something.
Then I wondered... if the font is now findable, how come I can't see it in the regular font pulldown? So I got the idea to select Arial and look at the weights (which I had not been doing) - voila, there is a new weight choice called Black! So somewhere in all the changes I did (reinstalling older versions of the fonts, deleting the font cache files, and several reboots) ID found the font again but decided that it was just another weight of Arial. Strange, but I can live with that.

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[Jongware] wrote:
Nonapeptide wrote:
... an error message pop up that says "Missing Plug-ins. LILO.APLN, DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN, CONDITIONALTEXT.RPLN" and three more. ...
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! I've searched around concerning this issue and it appears the consensus is that the file was opened by a newer version of InDesign. That possibility is, in fact, an impossibility.
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imjimjim wrote:
I understand how to get the fonts to work and I just received the Helvetica font's from him and got those working but the Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk aren't working. They can in a file with a strange icon (a grey box with green letters that spelled out "exec").
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