"Save As" function suddenly stops working

"Save As" function suddenly stops working in InDesign and Photoshop CS3. I hvae restarted several times but to no avail. I also can't make a pdf straight from InDesign. It was fine a minute ago. The Save As menu flashes on for a second and dissappears. After that the programlocks up. Does anyone have any suggestions?

As Bob mentioned (indirectly), this also has some of the symptoms of the hidden dialog syndrome (I was reading fast last night) where the dialogs are either hidden behind your other windows or are drawn off-screen. This is more common with multiple monitors.
Since this affecting several applications, and you are able to select the commands, it seems like a good possibility. What happens if you hit escape to cancel the operation after the system "locks up"? If it comes back that would be a strong indicator there is a hidden dialog waiting for you to respond.
Running flat-screens at native resolution helps, as does the little trick with Photoshop that Bob posted. Another trick to try is hitting Alt + Spacebar, then M to see if you can move the dialog into view.
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