Placed PDF made in Quark bug, InDesign CS4 XP

Hi,
I've just been bitten by the bug that causes characters to drop out when you create a PDF from an InDesign CS4 document that has a placed PDF made in Quark.
Has it been resolved? I looked at the update notes to 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 and couldn't see anything about it.
This is fairly urgent for me. If it hasn't been resolved, are there any workarounds?
Thank you,
Ariel

You may be right... but it didn't seem relevant at the time, since I rarely receive Quark files, so I probably phased out.
Anyway, the 6.0.2 for InDesign CS4ME does not fix the issue. I thought it might. And what a story it was to upgrade (which I just did this evening). Apparently, the 6.0.2 upgrade only works for a later build of IDCS4 (something like 6.0.0.421). I had the earlier build (something like 6.0.0.270). And the only solution was to completely uninstall InDesign, download the latest Demo on the Winsoft site (800MB. Took me around 2 hours). Install that. Then download the update and install that as well.
And it didn't even fix the issue!
The only positive side is that all my preferences survived the trauma intact!
Ariel

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