Problem with Indesign CS5 Live Distribute

I have a strange issue with the new Live Distribute feature. When I first experimented with it, it seemed to work perfectly. However, now, when I click on one of the scaling squares and hold down the space bar, it only lets me distribute for about a second. After that, the cursor is frozen, and I have to let go of the spacebar and perform another distribution. This is really tedious, as it requires quite a few moves to make relatively minor distributions. I don't know if I inadvertently changed a setting which is causing this behavior. If someone could provide some guidance, I'd really appreciate it.

I don't use Live Distribute but you could try these standard trouble shooting tuips when a file is misbehaving, this one first then this one. Alternatively go to the help here which has a few links on how to use it.

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Keith: What patch release of InDesign are you running? Hold down Cmd and select About InDesign.
Did you try resetting your preferences?
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I'm sorry EvBurk, what you want is intended not to work.
All Adobe's promotional material concerning InDesign and Digital Publishing (including the above "official statement") carefully uses verbs like "create" or "produce". But they never mention "distribute" or "spread", without explicitly referring to their exclusive hosting services. The whole Folio thing (in contrast to the former "issue" format) revolves around not giving you any chance of physically exporting, managing or owing the folio file itself. It's always somewhere on Adobe's or Apple's servers, or on your iPad, which is also as shut as a vault. So there's no way to export a folio file and toss it around like a pdf or jpeg. All you can do (without a paid distribution) is "share" your folio with some others, under the idea of "testing" and "reviewing". But this can be a cumbersome method. And even when paid (for the app), it's still difficult to distribute it outside Apple's or Android's market.
More than a year ago (in the middle of the Flash-on-iOS debate) Adobe users, developers, bloggers, and evangelists heavily criticized Apple's "walled garden". Adobe literally stated "We Love Apple - What we don't love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web." Well, you could say now: "I love Adobe, but what I don't love is Adobe taking away my freedom to own my files, and distribute them on my own terms." They let us create, but not spread our ideas. It's like giving you a typewriter and copier, that only works with Adobe stock paper. Like giving you a voice and an instrument, but only allowing you to sing and play in some walled gardens (dress code: Apple ID) or secluded shed (invitation only).
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It is version 5.0.4. I updated it when I newly installed it a week ago in my new computer, and then again updated it just yesterday.
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Richard
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:10:13 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Printing problems with InDesign CS3 with Mac OS 10.6.3
I neglected to ask what version of indesign CS3 you are using. I also
notice that Mac OSX 10.6.4 has just been released. It actually
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510-655-4454
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