Slow Typing in CS6

This post is only for reference in case somebody else is having the same issue; unfortunately it doesn't give a real and easy solution but shows that not all hope is lost.
I have a 200+ pages document containing about 50 references to images and about 75 cross references. All of a sudden typing became really slow (~2 letters per second). Again! And no, the machine I'm working with isn't too slow. It is build for CAD  and rendering, has loads of CPU cores, professional graphics and more than enough RAM. I don't think, InDesign will hit any of it's limits, ever. And yes, I have all the available updates installed.
This hit me three or four times already and out of experience I tried the following, without much hope I have to admit:
Save as IDML
Removed all cross-references and saved as IDML
Removed all references to images and all cross-references and saved as IDML
Of course, none of this helped as it didn't help before. Preflight was off - as always, display settings were set to the lowest possible setting - as always. I'm quite sure, I read every single post on the internet which refered to this problem. I banged my head against the wall because I couldn't find a solution for this - again.
The only thing that helps - and I knew it, when suddenly typing speed slowed down - was to start all over again with a complete new, fresh document. I really hate this, it's time consuming, absolutely unneccessary and expensive. And what is best, you can import all formats (text, table, TOC, cross-refs, ...), all master pages, everything layout-ish and Copy&Paste the text from the corrupted document. Afterwards typing speed is back to normal. This is ... I don't know what to say.
If you then save this fresh document containing all you "old" text and your "old" formats and stuff as IDML and compare it's size  with size of the IDML file created from the corrupted document, you'll see, tah the new doxument is  a remarkably smaller; more than 20% in my case. Twenty percent!!
Are you guys at Adobe serious? I can't start all over again every now and then just because the INDD file gets bloated with I-don't-know-what. In this shape, InDesign is simply useless for me. Sorry to say that, but that's the way it is. Can't you just make sure, that working on a file and saving it once in a while will not corrupt it? This isn't rocket science actually...

It happened again  just ten minutes ago. I'm restructuring  a document, that is moving sections around with cut & paste. Suddenly just after pasting a section back into the document typing became awfully slow. The pasted section's heading is used as a cross references target somewhere else in the document (it shows this little unobstrusive blue-ish colon at the beginning of the line). However, this was not the first section containing a cross reference target that I cut & pasted this morning, but I was quite quick with pasting.
Is it so, that ID re-evaluates all cross reference targets after a single target is cut? Additionally, is it possible, that if this exact target is pasted back while the re-evaluation process for the cut action is still running, the document gets corrupted sometimes?
Of course, I don't know anything of ID's inner life, but as a software developer I know such strange behaviour from personal experience .
Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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