Why is InDesign CC freezing while trying to perform various tasks?

I am on Windows 7 - 64 bit
Whenever I try to change the doc setup or delete a color swatch, or other various tasks, INDD CC is freezing and then I have to do a control-alt-delete and "end task" - shut it down. Same problem occurs when I re-open the program. Very frustrating - need to get some real work done.
Any ideas?
Sally

Here what I've done:
I did the update to 9.1
I did an online chat with adobe for about 3 hours, they thought that the document was corrupt somewhere, but still couldn't fix the problem - I was told to call in and an agent could take over my screen (I'm loathe to call in as last time I did and left a message for a call back they never did call me back - wait times are very long)
After speaking to Adobe:
I tried restoring preferences to default
I tried saving the file as INDL and re-opening
Nothing helps, it just keeps freezing when I do anything.
What I would like to do is just start a whole new document from scratch with the same doc size, number of pages (64) and all my paragraph styles (15 of them), to see if I can work in it without freezing.
So how do I copy over all my paragraph styles to a new document or do they have to be re-created? That would take a long time. I just want to be able to use my styles as a starting base and modify things like changing the colours within my styles.
I haven't gotten any work done in two days now - getting very frustrated as I keep having to force close InDesign and re-launch over and over.
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