InDesign CS3 Quits Unexpectedly

Question

Hi all,
Mac G4, OSX Tiger, InDesign CS3
Can anyone please shed some light on a problem I have just recently run into:
1 I am attempting to append some paragraph, character and object styles whilst no documents are open, in order to have them all load for every new document I open. These are from a document named 'style sheets' which I created to store my ongoing styles.
2 After appending the styles, I quit InDesign.
3 On re-launching, InDesign displays an error message: 'InDesign has unexpectedly quit', and will not open.
4 I trashed the preference files, except for those I wanted to keep: shortcuts, auto-correct and workspaces.
5 InDesign then launched okay.
6 I repeated appending the styles and the same thing happened again.
Could this be that I may have some corrupted styles?
Will I have to go through all of them adding them one by one (there are quite a lot of them), re-launching InDesign every time in order to weed out the culprits?
Has any one come across this before?
Any advice would be most welcome.
Thank you in advance,
Rob

Answer 1

Try here:http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83499.html
When you launch Adobe CS3 applications on Apple's Mac OS 10.6.3, the applications crash or quit unexpectedly. This is due to a conflict among Creative Suite 3, Mac OS 10.6.3, and a library Adobe uses for CS3. Other non-Adobe applications that use this library should have the same issue.
There are two conditions that trigger this behavior.
The first is when the system serial number doesn't have a valid number, but instead has a value such as "System Serial#," or "SystemSerialNumb." An incomplete serial number can also be a trigger. Complete and valid serial numbers should be exactly 12 alpha-numeric characters Invalid serial numbers can be set into a computer when the computer is refurbished or repaired, and the original system serial number is unavailable. For this case, see solutions 1 and 2.
The second cause is when applications are set to run in Rosetta mode. For this case, see solution 3.
SOLUTION 1: REVERT TO MAC OS 10.6.2 OR EARLIER
For assistance in this process, please contact Apple or your Apple reseller.
SOLUTION 2: OBTAIN A NEW SYSTEM SERIAL NUMBER
For assistance with this, please contact Apple or your Apple reseller.
SOLUTION 3: DISABLE THE OPEN USING ROSETTA OPTION
This is for some cases which are unrelated to the system serial number.
Select your CS3 application in the finder.
Choose File > Get Info.
Disable the "Open using Rosetta" checkbox.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Adobe is working with Apple to understand the issue and determine a course of action to resolve it.
To confirm that you will not be affected by this the first case of this issue, prior to installing the OS 10.6.3 update, do the following:
From the Apple menu, choose About this Mac.
Click the More Info button.
In the Hardware Overview pane, look at the value for  "Serial Number (system)".
If the value has exactly 12 alpha-numeric charactes, you should not be affected by this issue.
Hope this helps