Show hidden characters shortcut causes crash

I'm running CS4 on Mac OS 10.5.8 (Indesign 6.0.4 which I believe is the latest).
Lately, InDesign has started crashing when I use command+opt+I (the shortcut for show hidden characters), which I do A LOT for text design purposes. It doesn't crash every single time I use the key combo, but it's gotten to about 50% of the time, so that I'm afraid to use it. I'm very shortcut oriented rather than menu oriented, so please don't suggest I just stop using the shortcut (that's what my IT guy would suggest). It took me forever to even remember what the command was called that I was doing -- I ended up finding it by accident.
Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone have any advice/suggestions?
Thanks!

I would start by Quitting Indesing, removing (putting on Desktop in case you have custom settings saved there) the Indesign Prefs;
/Users/YOUR HOME FOLDER/Library/Preferences (Indesign Folder & .plist) and also removing the Indesign Cache folder;
/Users/YOUR HOME FOLDER/Library/Caches.

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