Lost ability to drag files into InDesign

Hi,
All of a sudden I cannot drag files from Bridge into InDesign anymore. It still works in Photoshop and Illustraor but not InDesign. I cannot figure out what happened. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
I have to add this is CS4. But I just did a test and if I try and drag from Bridge into InDesign CS3 it works. So the Problems seems to be only with InDesign CS4.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: kit02

I called Adobe b/c this was driving me crazy. With the program closed I had to hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt - then start the program and delete the preferences. That fixed this issue.

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