Map Styles to Tags Problem

For the first time ever I am having problems running the Map Styles to Tags commmand in InDesign CS3. The program takes some time to d the command but then an empty dialog pops up and the tagging has not happened. Any ideas in taking the text step to debug this problem?
InCopy CS3 on a PowerMac DualG5/Mac OS X 10.5.8. Extra plug-ins include the K4 workflow system, Universal Type Server plug-in, Notes Manager, Overset Manager. I have attempted to do this operation via InCopy on this article and encountered the same problem.

I finally figured out this problem. The main article (InCopy document) was very, very long. Once I removed all change tracking in InCopy and turned off change tracking (which involved some changes in K4 administration) everything worked perfectly.

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