Many unusual InDesign CS2 problems.

I am currently using InDesign CS2 (Mac OS X version 10.3.9) and am dealing with a variety of strange problems. A few months back random issues started occassionally and I figured they were flukes, but now the problems are continually growing and getting worse.
Here we go...
My measurements stopped defaulting one day to inches and returns to picas every time the program is restarted and randomly throughout the day with different and/or new files I'm working with?!
My start-up dialog boxes and print dialog boxes that you can opt to not show started showing up again. I uncheck the box so they are to no longer show, but whenever the program is restarted, they show up again?!
Occassional crashes, but that may be normal?!
Fonts... it will randomly tell me that fonts are missing when a file is open, but they are installed and by restarting the program the font is no longer missing and I am able to work with the file properly. More recently, however, the problem did not fix and an installed font will not work in the program, but the same font is present and functioning in Illustrator.
Placed images sometimes print low-rez when they are hi-rez and, when viewing, look hi-rez. When exporting to a pdf, the images become low-rez as well. I can place the same images in Illustrator or view them in Photoshop and they print hi-rez as they should?!
I am experiencing a lot of problems to say the least. I don't know if my software has gotten corrupt somehow? I'm considering reinstalling. Has anyone experienced this and/or do you have any suggestions on fixing the issue?
Thanks,
Megan

>My measurements stopped defaulting one day to inches and returns to picas every time the program is restarted and randomly throughout the day with different and/or new files I'm working with?!
Measurements are controlled on a per-document basis, so it will show the last thing used in that document. Your default units can be set by changing the Units prefs with no documents open.
>Fonts... it will randomly tell me that fonts are missing when a file is open, but they are installed and by restarting the program the font is no longer missing and I am able to work with the file properly. More recently, however, the problem did not fix and an installed font will not work in the program, but the same font is present and functioning in Illustrator.
Are you using third party font management software? That might be a cause of your issues with fonts. Also, if you can see the font correctly in Text Edit, but not certain Adobe apps, that is a good time to empty caches (see below) and possibly delete all AdobeFnt.lst files. (Search for files that begin with "adobefnt" and end with ".lst". Make sure not to throw away anything ends with .db!)
>Placed images sometimes print low-rez when they are hi-rez and, when viewing, look hi-rez. When exporting to a pdf, the images become low-rez as well. I can place the same images in Illustrator or view them in Photoshop and they print hi-rez as they should?!
Are all your links up-to-date?
Also, check your Graphics->Image settings in the Print dialog. Are they set to "Proxy" perhaps?
Additionally, for PDFs, what Export->Compression settings are you using?
If all else fails, do some general maintenance. Start out by resetting your preferences completely. Quit InDesign and relaunch with all the modifier keys mashed down (cmd-opt-control-shift). You should get a dialog asking if you want to reset the InDesign prefs.
If that doesn't work, try repairing permissions using Disk Utility.
If that doesn't work, try resetting all your caches using something like Onyx.

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