Opening Word docs in InDesign CS4 (Mac). It keeps crashing.

Hello everyone.
I have just upgraded to CS4 from CS2 (Mac) and I have been having numerous issues with Word and InDesign. When I try downloading a fairly complicated Word file into InDesign CS4 it crashes. But, if I open it in InDesign CS2, it opens fine. I then take the ID CS2 file and reopen it in InDesign CS4 and it works. Though this maybe a good workaround, it isn't something I can be doing all the time, its way too time consuming. Does anyone have an idea what the problem is? Or, what I can do about it?
As a note: I have also just upgraded my systems to Mac Pros and iMacs with Leopard on it.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the info. I have had this file opened in lower versions of CS with no issues. It seems like every few files this is happening to. All my current systems have two gigs of Ram.
I was suspecting (dreading) that it may be a font conflict. I know the system fonts (dfonts) have been somewhat an issue in previous versions of CS, but I never had crashes to InDesign before because of font conflicts. I will try sorting through my fonts and breaking-up the file.
Thanks again for your guys help. I'll let you know if I find anything out.

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