[Suddha Satta ray]

Well, I kind of self-resolved the problem.

All I did was (after days of hit and trial with Vista services, start up programs and whether they were conflicting with indesign.exe in any way …. aaarrghh .)

The simple solution to the issue was nothing more than an access issue.
I had installed InDesign Cs5 as user “Administrator”, but I was trying to run ID CS5 as a limited user. Therefore all I did was go to these folders mentioned below, right clicked on them, selected “Security” and granted “Full Control” access to all users on the system.

The folders where “FULL CONTROL” access were given:

1. C:\Program Files\Adobe
2. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe

Hope this info is of help to others who are struggling with Indesign start-up issues.