InDesign document window WON'T WIDEN!

Yesterday, when I opened an InDesign document, the window was tall and narrow - while I could make it taller or shorter I could not make it wider. I saved as a an inx file, quit InDesign,opened a new document, opened older docs - all are behaving the same way. What did I do? Hoping for help soonest - it is very HARD working on these files.
Jan
PS MacOS10.5.6, InDesign CS3, plenty of RAM and HD space

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