Indesign Keyboard randomly stops working

At random times the keyboard wil completely stop working in Indesign. It works fine in all other applications (including other Adobe apps) but does nothing in Indesign.
Then if you click through some of the menus for a while it will start working again. This happens on ALL our machines.
How do I fix this?

Hi Peter,
I'm using Windows XP Service pack 3
hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2,131 Mhz
6 Gig ram, Geforce 7300 GT
Indesign CS4 version 6.0.1 (This is all I can see about version?)
Hope this helps.
Thanks

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