InDesign CS5 Advice Please

I work in a print production environment and there is talk of getting CS5 for all of our production computers, all running Snow Leopard. Some are Intel iMacs and some are Intel Mac Pros. Compatibility is not my question as we are all up-to-date with our hardware and OS. We are all currently using CS3. I am curious about any bugs or complications we need to consider before upgrading. I am not trying to start another gripe fest, as have happened profusely in other forums I frequent. I'm just looking for unbiased advice about everyone's experiences so I can contribute to an informed decision here at my job.
Thanks,
JM

I just installed CS5 last week and I have problems printing from InDesign to a Xerox workcentre 7345 printer, postscript error, xerox can't figure it out.  My original install disk was bad and Adobe actually contacted our company and sent a new one before I could complain about the problems to adobe.  The original install disk gave me big problems with InDesign and preflight packaging for sending files to press, it would freeze in the middle of the process.  The new installation disk they sent us seems to have fixed that.  I have intermittent problems exporting to PDF in InDesign.  PDF export is now done in the background and sometimes it freezes as well.  These problems may be because all of my original files are InDesign CS3 files, not CS4?  Other than I can't print, cant create a PDF, and can't collect files for press, hey it works great.  But other people don't seem to be having these problems.  I think the PDF problem has been solved with a work around, if I export as a small pdf first then export again as a press quality it seems to work fine.  Like I say the packaging preflight seems to be solved, but my printer is still a mystery, hopefully xerox can solve it.  Good Luck, this is the first time I've had problems with adobe software.  Photoshop and all other software seems just fine, but InDesign is buggy.

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