Me too. My Pages panel periodically stops working. First it just appears empty (plain grey). If I try resizing the panel, it gets even weirder. When I click on the "resize handle" of the panel, the little dotted triangle in the bottom right corner, the panel just disappears! The same happens when I try to grab either the bottom edge or the right-hand edge. The panel just disappears, and then cheekily reappears when I release the mouse button.
I can right-click on the panel and select "Panel Options", which lets me play around with some options. For example, by switching off the "Show Vertically" option, I can get some of the thumbnails to display, but not correctly. A few thumbnails appear in a horizontal row, but then the row goes off the right-hand side of the panel leaving most of the thumbnails invisible.
After a while the resizing function starts working again, but even resizing the panel to fill the whole screen is not enough to show all the thumbnails. They start OK with page 1 in the top left, but then continue in a horizontal row that disappears off the right-hand side of the panel. If there are enough pages in the file, the row reappears on the left, but the page number has jumped by about six, so six thumbnails are missing.
I have tried resetting the panel with "Window>Workspace>Reset Advanced", but that doesn't make any difference.
I have also tried resetting all the preferences by restarting InDesign with Ctrl-Alt-Shift held down. I answer yes to the "reset preferences" dialog, but this still does not fix the Pages panel.
There are several threads on this bug. One user on this forum had to reformat his computer and reinstall all his software, and the moderator closed the thread (here) as "answered". I don't consider that an "answer". Is there any solution that doesn't require reinstalling all my software?
System: Windows XP SP2, Adobe CS4, latest updates applied
