InDesign Plugin missing

I'm hoping someone can help identify my problem. I recently received an error message upon opening a document the file used a plugin that was not available.
Missing plugin: sfmkitcs3.InDesignPlugin
I am aware of issues similar to this when trying to open CS3 documents into CS2, however I am using InDesign CS3 version 5.0.3.
Exporting to Interchange format and then re-saving in InDesign seems to resolve the error message, but I am wondering about the origin of the message and if I have defeated any content of the file.
Can anyone shed any light on the "sfmkitcs3.InDesignPlugin" plugin?
Thanks in advance for any help provided!
Jim

Hey Jim,
thats quite interesting! This is a plugin especially developed for some translation database we use.
It looks like someone involved to our worklflow used this plugin for other jobs also.
Maybe you should give a short explanation about plugin management to the sender of this file. ;-)
But nevertheless you can just ignore this message. It doesnt make any changes to the documents content.
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