InDesign Problem

I am using InDesign 5 onOSX Snow Leopard, when I try to start up InDesign, I get this messaage: "Adobe InDesign is shutting down.
A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents" - Return to Finder."
Any ideas what causes this?
Regards Adam Ostrowski

Could be lots of things.
Do you really mean InDesign 5, which is CS3, or InDesign  CS5, which is version 7. It might matter. Also are you patched to the most current update for whichever version it is?
Finally, if you are getting a crash, you should also be getting a crash report. Please upload that to pastebin.com, then post a link to it here and one of us, most likely John, will take a look.

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