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This is a follow up to a posting I originally made a few months ago with regard to the constant crashing of Adobe InDesign on my new MacBook Pro.
I appreciate this is non-Apple software, and I am also searching through the Adobe forums, however I have just deinstalled the original version of Creative Suite 3 from my MacBook Pro and installed a completely different copy of CS3. As previously, I knew this new version worked successfully on other Macs (including my own iMac) ... and yet, once again, the same problem occurs. Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, etc. all open fine. InDesign crashes as it attempts to launch.
Since this is the same fault with two separate copies of the software, and since I know the software to be fine on other Apple Macs, I have to draw the conclusion that the issue lies with my MacBook Pro.
If anyone else is successfully using InDesign CS3 on their MacBook Pros could they let me know, as at least this will rule out any weird incompatibility issues.
Hopefully I'll be getting round to installing CS4 in the not too distant future ... but until then, if anyone has any ideas I'd be most grateful.
Thanks ...

With the 15" anti-glare option finally available, I just upgraded my Aluminum on Tiger to my new MBP a couple weeks ago. I originally had planned to do a clean install of my apps, but with Migration, that just didn't seem to end up what I did... :P
Anyway, I migrated my CS and my CS3 (I had been using CS mostly on my Aluminum as it wasn't as big of a drain on it). I haven't actually used my Flash, but have used all the other CS3 apps so far, including ID (mostly ID, PS and AI).
So... not that it's any actual help for you, but at least it's somebody on a new MBP who is running CS3 with no problems (well, except for the usual ID bugs... ). When you re-installed, you got rid of all of the Library related CS items? Also, did you make sure to disable any 3rd party plug-ins? Also turn off whatever 3rd Party font management just in case (my new Suitcase didn't get here for a few days, so I always got the "no Suitcase" warning upon start-up, so you never know if there could be a conflict).
I got a little ****** at Adobe w/ their recent ramming of CS4... so I'm probably going to stick w/ CS3 until CS5 (I figure I've got at least another month or so before I'd try Snow anyway, so the main bugs get worked out).

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