InDesign CS4 won't open at all!   I'm doomed!

What happened? I've been using InDesign CS4 (bought the master collection) since March on my brand new MacBook Pro (2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3) just fine...the other adobe updater ran and now..nothing. I click on the app and nothing happens. Notning at all. No dialog box, no nothing. I rebooted my Mac and now my InDesign files that were on my desktop don't even have the purple InDesign thumbs/icons anymore. I see in my InDesign folder that the app is there (304MB) and but now there's another InDesignCS4 app (112mb) yet it doesn't have the purple folder icon...it looks more like a text edit doc or an incomplete file or something.
I tried adobe updater again, to see if was an incomplete update, and it shows no updates for InDesign. Some other apps don't open anymore either, like After Effects, but Photoshop Extended, and Flash do open up.
What's going on!? I have a big meeting tomoorow and I'm up a creek without InDesign.
Again, all was fine two days ago. The updater ran on the 16th...
Please help!
Thanks,
Derrick

Thanks Steve,
that link you gave me says 'Page no longer available. "
I installed this at work, and the disks are are there, so I was trying to get it up and running before the AM.
A couple of things I've found:
1. A while back, I shortened the name of the app to InDesign CS4 (as opposed to "Adobe InDesign CS4" I took off the "Adobe" in front of it so it would be shorter in the dock.) I'm wondering if the updater was looking for the exact match, which is whay I got a SECOND "Adobe InDesign CS4" app in my folder that was only 114mb as oppsed to the full 300mb...Funny, I did that same thing with After Effects (removed the "Adobe" in front of the name) and it's doing the same thing (not supported). All other apps in the Master Collection that might have been updated two days ago are fine. Do you think the updater is that picky, and it installed the update as a seperate, unusable file? I trashed the smaller, newer (the one I got when I updated) Adobe InDesign CS4 in hopes that the old full app would open up as it did before and re-update. That's when I got the "not supported" message.
Before I trashed the "smaller" app, nothing was happening at all when I tried to lauch either. At least now I'm getting the "Not supported" thing.
2. I found a crash report in my app support folder:
bplist00Ó      TPathZPerAppACRRTDate_ j/Users/dogilvie/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Adobe InDesign CS4_2009-06-18-002600_Derricks-MacBook-Pro.crashÒ    WOSBuildXVersionsT9J61Ñ  Y??? (???)Ñ ]appCrashCount  3A¯Óò°¶"    $‘–ž§¬¯¹¼ÊÌ   Õ
does that make any sense?
any hel[p would be greatly appreciated.
Derrick

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