Problem Exporting to Epub 3.0

Hi, everybody,
I am trying to export a book to epub with ID CS6 in Windows and in the code of the XHTML file created the first 2 lines are only:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
I noticed that in DreamWeaver I am still able to split the code and the preview in two panes but the preview pane is not showing the resulting code. I looked in to the code of other ebooks and I noticed a second line (the !DOCTYPE).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
So if I manualy include it before the start of the <head> I can work in Dreamweaver in the usual way. What is wrong with the export module of Indesign? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance
Maria

Amanda:
InDesign CS5.5, current on updates
I really hae to learn to ask that question differently. Everyone says they're current, but sometimes people are not correct! 7.0.4.553?
Anyhow:
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Great! Let's see the crash report, please. Upload to http://pastebin.com/ and post a link here.

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