Presets and defaults get deleted when InDesign CS3 crashes

Every few days InDesign CS3 crashes. I don't know why, but that's not even the issue here. The problem is that when it does, all of my presets and default settings get erased.
Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening?
If I save my default settings (by which I mean measurements, color palette, default fonts, stuff like that) as a workspace, will that allow me to import it all again when it does happen? Or will my workspaces get deleted too?
This is getting really really really frustrating and I'd appreciate any advice on the matter!
Shari+

Read through the prior threads Peter posted. I see no solution offered. I
too have had this problem on two separate workstations from the day ID CS3
was installed. Intermitant, but it can be made to happen quite easily. I
have never had a problem with printing, just opening multiple files through
explorer.
I spend hours on the phone with Adobe tech support and they also could not
resolve the issue. Tried everything under the sun, including activating only
the bare minimum fonts required by the systems, creating new XP user
accounts, reinstalling the suite, deleting prefs, washing some files through
INX, defrag, turning off all processes other than ID... nada... still
problems. They gave up. So did I. Just living with it waiting for the next
update.
If someone has a fix for this, I'm all ears.
Larry

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