Indesign CS3 won't load

Every time I try to start Indesign I get this popup
I am on a Mac running 10.5.8.
I have copied the entire Plug-ins folder from my Mac Pro, (also running CS3 & still working) but that didn't help.
I was able to trash preferences when starting Indesign (CMD-Option-CNTL-Shift) but since it didn't finish loading I don't know if it worked.
It worked fine yesterday.
Ideas?

Found the answer in another forum, with instructions. Deleting the SING file solved the problem.

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