OVERLAY CREATOR NOT RESPONDING

My Overlay Creator Panel is not reponding. When I try to select or click atributes any of the effects, Video, Object States, Web content Ect. nothing will apply. For example the Auto Play button for video, web, or slideshow
Ive used the panel and produced Viewer Apps before and it just stopped working. I have reinstalled that tools. Restarted machine, and indesign, everything seems to be up to date. I have tryed disconnecting from servers and still nothing can be selected in the Overlay Creator.
What can I do to troubleshoot to solve this so I can get back to producting interactive overlays.
Thansk.

Indesign restart does not help
but ... removing the old preferences and reinstalling the DPS tools solved the problem.
Thanks for the hint

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