InDesign CS3 Freezing Opening Glyph Pallet

This is embarassing. I logged in with the wong account so I'm reposting this under my correct account.
Sorry.
I'm working on developing a font and have been using it in InDesign CS3 testing some of the features in the font. InD will also be the primary place we'll use the font so it's important that things work correctly. CS3 for now, CS5 later on.
In my latest generation of the font InDesign CS3 started locking up while trying to export a PDF or opening the glyph pallet. InDesign CS5 works fine.
I'm sure its the small cap feature of the font is causing the issue with CS3, removing it makes things work, I don't get small caps then, of course, but it will export a PDF and display the glyph pallet.
I think the problem is that InD CS3 is holding on to something that was previously in the font. I've tried deleting the font cache files but that didn't help.
My question is whether there is anything else I can to reset in InDesign that might make it look completely a-new at the font?
My next step will be trying to uninstall and re-install CS3, but I was hoping for an easier answer as I now have 8 computers I'll have to "fix" for the short term.
Thanks,
(again)
Ken

Hmm, there are Greek references in the features. I also renamed some small cap glyphs.
The most perplexing thing is that there are 4 fonts, Regular, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic. Regular and Italic cause the problem, Bold and BoldItalic don't, but from everything I can see the small cap features and classes that are used are identical. Identical too are all the glyph names and unicode encodings.
Another interesting thing is that a test I just ran on a machine that had never before even RUN InD CS3 had the same problem. So, apparently it isn't a matter of something being left over.
I'll start looking at the language stuff between the fonts that work and those that won't.
Thanks very much for the lead.
Ken

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