Working with Thai language in Indesign

Hello,
I hope someone can help. I need to incorporate Thai text (supplied by client), into some graphics produced in InDesign CS2 (running on OS 10.4)
I have managed to copy/paste some correctly displayed text from the web into TextEdit which is imported into InDesign. (Straight copying into InDesign leaves lines of boxes).
Seems ok but actually the character spacing gets distorted. Accents are slightly off and in some instances take up about a character space all to themselves.
I downloaded a freebie Thai font to try but this left me with squares again.
People must be able to work with Thai copy in industries such as translation but i'm not sure where to go from here! If the best option is to buy in some software, what would you suggest?
Any help gratefully received, with thanks. (From the UK)

As far as I can tell, inDesign CS2 is seriously crippled in Thai. Using Tiger (OS X 10.4.9) I can type or paste Thai text into inDesign CS2, but only as long as I use Apple fonts, i.e. Lucida Grande, Thonburi, Silom, etc.
Even then, inDesign frequently places line breaks in the middle of Thai words, so I assume it is not communicating with the same dictionary as TextEdit, Pages, Word, etc. Also, inDesign CS2 has problems with "floating" tone markers, even though Pages and TextEdit on the same machine do not.
CS3 might be better but I'm not there yet. I do know there is a software solution to improve Thai script performance in Illustrator and inDesign CS3. I don't know much about it other than that it's called Freelock and is mentioned in, and linked from, Graham Rogers' blog here: http://www.extensions.in.th/diary/2007_2/siam01.html

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