Synchronize color settings

I own PS CS4 and InDesign CS4. From Bridge I can click on Edit->Creative Suite Color Settings but I then get an error msg that says that "Suite Color Management is not enabled" and further that a qualifying product must have been launched at least once. What's going on here? I thought owning more than one product in the creative suite enabled this function.
I'm not sure I want to synchronize the color management in PS and ID but I want to try it to see if it resolves a color management problem I can't figure out.
Thanks
Bob

See
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/434026
The key word in your posting is "Suite". If you do not have have a
Creative Suite license and only have a single product license for Ps
then Suite Color Management is not relevant.

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