Indesign CS4 Problem with weird characters HELP!!!

I am rather new to Indesign, but have been using it for several months with no problems. I design our church bulletins and my youth group bulletins using it every week. I don't know what happened but I opened previous documents tonight and when I tried to change the text with the text boxes, it shows the text being changed, but when I hit space or click off the text it turns into boxes instead of the text characters I typed. I have tried opening other docs and even other text boxes within the docs and everytime it does the same thing. When changing numbers it brings up a little box with numbers and chinese looking symbols next to them. This is really confusing me and google searching has come up with nothing to help. Can someone please help me before I lose my mind???

More inforamtion about restoring preferences can be found here: Adobe InDesign CS4 * Setting preferences
Read everything.
If that doesn't solve the problem, it sounds like a font problem. Are you having any other problems in other applications? It's possible you've selected a differnt fron than you are used to using.

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