When making a PDF in Indesign CS5 crashes?

Is there any way to reset the PDFs Presets in Indesign. The High Quality PDF (that is a preset already in Indesign) started to crash ages ago. I just made up new PDF Presets. Now it seems that when making PDFS whether Press Quality or the ones I have made myself it crashes. I launch Indesign then can make a PDF but then when I open another document it crashes again? Any help greatly appreciated

Please see Adobe Forums: InDesign CS5.5 Not Responding for directions to to produce a Hang report, then a forced crash and report, and put both of them on Pastebin.com, not here, and put links to both of them here. We may be able to pin down the problem from the reports.
I'm about to quit for the day, so either someone else will help you, or I'll pick up again in the morning.

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Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   AdobeBIB                      0x00813bec BIBInitialize2 + 40444
1   AdobeBIB                      0x00812bc6 BIBInitialize2 + 36310
2   AdobeCoolType                 0x00855e48 0x855000 + 3656
3   AdobeCoolType                 0x008b3e4b CTCleanup + 1719
4   AdobeCoolType                 0x008676c1 0x855000 + 75457
5   AdobeCoolType                 0x0085a352 0x855000 + 21330
6   AdobeCoolType                 0x00a5f4cb CTCleanup + 1752375
7   AdobeCoolType                 0x00865b93 0x855000 + 68499
8   AdobeCoolType                 0x0086e5ef 0x855000 + 103919
9   AdobeCoolType                 0x00934257 CTCleanup + 527043
10 AdobeCoolType                 0x0090d35c CTCleanup + 367560
11 AdobeCoolType                 0x008a95b0 0x855000 + 345520
12 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dd6b3d GetPlugIn + 30541
13 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dd899f GetPlugIn + 38319
14 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dd1056 GetPlugIn + 7270
15 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dce3d1 0x22dcb000 + 13265
16 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dccbaa 0x22dcb000 + 7082
17 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dcc890 0x22dcb000 + 6288
18 ...be.InDesign.Optical Kerning 0x22dcd32a 0x22dcb000 + 9002
19 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x200df5fa GetPlugIn + 651066
20 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x20056a8e GetPlugIn + 91086
21 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x20064b99 GetPlugIn + 148697
22 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x200940f3 GetPlugIn + 342579
23 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x20097b3b GetPlugIn + 357499
24 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x200a2ab6 GetPlugIn + 402422
25 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x200a0a91 GetPlugIn + 394193
26 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x20043e76 GetPlugIn + 14262
27 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x200483f5 GetPlugIn + 32053
28 ...InDesign.Paragraph Composer 0x20041009 GetPlugIn + 2377
29 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e80e9b6 GetPlugIn + 3970822
30 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e5f14ae GetPlugIn + 1753598
31 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e5f89e9 GetPlugIn + 1783609
32 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e613d20 GetPlugIn + 1895024
33 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e6149bd GetPlugIn + 1898253
34 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e60b121 GetPlugIn + 1859185
35 PublicLib.dylib               0x0125ff6a CShape::ProcessDrawShape(GraphicsData*, long) + 314
36 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e51a9e6 GetPlugIn + 874294
37 com.adobe.InDesign.Text       0x1e51bb8e GetPlugIn + 878814
38 PublicLib.dylib               0x0125ff6a CShape::ProcessDrawShape(GraphicsData*, long) + 314
39 PublicLib.dylib               0x0125d22d CShape::DrawHierarchy(GraphicsData*, long) + 365
40 PublicLib.dylib               0x01260146 CGraphicFrameShape::DrawShape_Hierarchy(GraphicsData*, long) + 326
41 PublicLib.dylib               0x0125dc32 CGraphicFrameShape::DrawShape(GraphicsData*, long) + 210
42 PublicLib.dylib               0x0125ff6a CShape::ProcessDrawShape(GraphicsData*, long) + 314
43 com.adobe.InDesign.Layer      0x2053f26c 0x2053a000 + 21100
44 ....InDesign.Generic Page Item 0x1fdd565f GetPlugIn + 155199
45 com.adobe.InDesign.Layer      0x2053ee15 0x2053a000 + 19989
46 com.adobe.InDesign.Layer      0x2053f682 0x2053a000 + 22146
47 com.adobe.InDesign.Spread     0x1f14c76c 0x1f148000 + 18284
48 com.adobe.InDesign.Spread     0x1f14f352 0x1f148000 + 29522
49 com.adobe.InDesign.Spread     0x1f151696 0x1f148000 + 38550
50 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x1a14004e GetPlugIn + 111134
51 PublicLib.dylib               0x0135616a SnapshotUtils::CreateAlphaAGMImageAccessor() const + 4794
52 PublicLib.dylib               0x01356638 SnapshotUtilsEx::Draw(long, unsigned long, PMReal const&, unsigned long, SnapshotUtils::Transparencies, IdleTimer*, std::map<IDType<ClassID_tag>, PMReal, std::less<IDType<ClassID_tag> >, std::allocator<std::pair<IDType<ClassID_tag> const, PMReal> > >*, unsigned long) + 104
53 com.adobe.InDesign.Layout     0x2051b95a GetPlugIn + 70250
54 com.adobe.InDesign.Layout     0x2051b240 GetPlugIn + 68432
55 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x1a15ff85 GetPlugIn + 242005
56 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x1a160ec9 GetPlugIn + 245913
57 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x1a102e78 0x1a100000 + 11896
58 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework 0x1a1285fa GetPlugIn + 14282
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So... I tried everything - going back to old backups (thanks to Time Machine), most of which were corrupted or earlier documents that were missing most of what I needed. I was prepared to re-do hundreds of hours of work. I re-installed Mac OS X 10.6 again. I re-installed InDesign CS5 again... and I thought... before updating it (from the 7.0.0.355 disk distribution), let's try to open the corrupted versions of the documents. It opened 5 of the 6. Amazed, I quickly made uncorrupted copies of these documents, made markup files and replaced them in the original book. The last document crashed, but it didn't spread to other open documents. So (still without updating InDesign) I created a brand new book file and started adding the documents to it - leaving the one remaining document as the last addition. When I added it, ID indicated it was damaged but added and opened it anyway. I made an uncorrupted version of that document and replaced it in the replacement book. I ran the PhotoShop font test again and it still reported that Lucida Grande (regular) was SNAFU, but Font Book reported it as OK - seeming to indicate that the font issue raised in this forum was not related. I could find no visible abnormalities in any of the recovered documents. (I was also the victim of the "Anchored Object outside the margin" crash problem early in CS5 that required an update to recover from.)
I'm going to update my copy of InDesign CS5 one of these days, but not until making extra backup copies of every ID document I've produced in the last year. I'm a software guy and my instincts tell me that something (wild guess - the Adobe Cool Type feature of the Paragraph Composer/Optical Kerning plugin) is broken - perhaps worsened during a software update. Adobe software is known to be "fragile" - I just had no idea how expensive such fragility could be.
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John Hawkinson wrote:
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(oh boy...).
OK, your (oh boy...) is freaking me out.
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I wanna do a restore system font. Do you think that would do?
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