Solution to InDesign CS5 Hang After Start

Question

I was having a problem with InDesign CS5 where it would go through the whole start up process and then just hang, with a white box in the middle of the screen.
Here is what I did to fix it, although this is more of a hack than a real fix. I already posted this as a bug report so hopefully Adobe will come out with a dot release to handle it.
What seems to happen is that InDesign is looking for an internet connection right after it starts, and when it doesn't find one, it will keep trying if you have a network cable plugged in.
You can either un-plug your network cable before you start InDesign and it will start up just fine (you will have to do this each time you start InDesign) or you can go into the plug ins folder Applications -> InDesign CS5 -> Plug-Ins and find the PMPack folder in there is the plug-in for the welcome screen called PMWelcomeScreen.InDesignPlugin if you take this out of your plug-ins folder then you will be able to start InDesign without unplugging your network cable, but you loose the welcome screen.
There you have it.
Hope this helps someone.

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion on the welcome screen. I wanted to make sure that I didn't run into that the problem again. I work in an office were all our jobs are kept on a server, so I cannot afford to disconnect the network cable just in case I have something else open in another application and this is the only thing that worked .Prior to that I tried uninstalling and re-installing InDesign many times and under a new user, when two of my co-workers who have totally different machines than me had the same trouble I figured the only common denominator between us was that we were on a network and not connected to the internet from our working machines...
I am running OS 10.6.3 on a Mac Mini (2009) 2.0 GHZ core 2 duo, 4 GB of RAM.