Why does InDesign CS1 refuse to feather my images?

Hi there
I have been using InDesign from the Creative Suite Professional (the very first Creative Suite) and it has worked fine for a year and a half running on a laptop PC running Windows 7 Home Premium.
About a month ago while in the middle of a 35 page document in which I had inserted about 40 'feathered' images, the software stopped displaying the images in a feathered format and was only showing the images as rectangles.
I removed the software and twice reinstalled the CS Suite. Same problem.  It appears that sometimes if the programme is open for a few hours that all of a sudden the images will begin to appear as feathered.  When i open the programme again the next day the images are not feathered.  A couple hours later they may or may not appear feathered in the document.
I have been told that CS1 Premium will not run on Windows 7 yet I've been running InDesign and PhotoShop from the CS1 Premium package for a year and a half.
HELP!!!    Is there a solution to this 'here today and gone tomorrow' feathering problem I am facing?  A reply to [email protected] would be very much appreciated.
THANK YOU!!!
Kent Waddington

I have been told that CS1 Premium will not run on Windows 7 yet I've been running InDesign and PhotoShop from the CS1 Premium package for a year and a half.
I don't know who would have told you that; CS1 is not supported under Windows 7. That means that if you want to try to get it to work, you're on your own, Adobe won't help you. This is mostly because Adobe doesn't invest the (considerable) effort needed to make a program released in 2003 work on an operating system released in 2009. I tried it myself; I found extensive problems, and gave up.
Is there a solution to this 'here today and gone tomorrow' feathering problem I am facing?
The solution I use is to run CS and CS2 in XP Mode. That basically runs Windows XP as a program on top of Windows 7. That's how I keep all of my old pre-Vista software running on my new-ish Windows 7 machine.

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