I have searched all over Google and these forums, but have come up empty handed on how to reset the zero-point of the rulers in InDesign. The advice of "double-click the box at the intersection of the rulers" has not worked. I've tried this after changing the ruler type to be "per page" or "per spread" or "per spine". I've tried a few other things, such as this script:
app.documents[0].zeroPoint = [0,0];
I've also tried closing InDesign, updating to the newest version, and opening a new document, but none of these steps have worked.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Here is my current workspace. 
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Click the upper left box (at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical ruler bars) and drag it to the spot on your layout where you want the new zero point. In this example, the zero point is being set at the upper left corner of the page.
app.documents[0].zeroPoint = [0,0];
Your JS is actually working. The [0,0] coordinate is the upper left corner of the document's trim and not the pasteboard.
I could manually set it to the pasteboard, but then the Transform panel wouldn't display coordinates relative to the page, which is usually what you want.
I think you are misunderstanding how the zero point works—it is relative to the page's trim and not the pasteboard.
You could eliminate the pasteboard, bleed, and slug, with a document set up as non facing pages. In that case there would be no pasteboard or bleed.
So the Pasteboard Options set to 0
A new doc with no bleed with facing pages turned off:
This has been the biggest help so far, in getting me toward my intended goal, however I am still not confident that the original problem was undone, as I never changed these settings before. I've attached screenshots to better explain what I mean:
1. Following the instructions of @rob day, I end up with a workspace looking like this: 
This is substantively what I want, but was not achieved through undoing my previous error of dragging out the reticle from the top left corner of the workspace. The unchecking of "facing pages" made the difference, but this is not an option that I made changes to before. It seems also like adding a second page now results in the two pages being fully vertically stacked, a condition that was not present previously.
If I turn "facing-pages" back on, the output looks like this. With 9" of space to the left of the left edger of the page. This was not the way pages would load before the above discussed error/mistake was committed.
See for example, if I add a second page with "facing pages" off:
This is not how multi-page documents used to present, but at least the space to the side of the documents is down to 5".
Here is what a document looks like with multiple pages, and "facing pages" turned back on:
Unless I am mistaken, this is close to what the behavior for multipage documents was before I committed the pasteboard reticle error, however single page documents looked more similar to how the first image in my post, with "facing pages" turned off, appears. It may be noteworthy, also, that this last workspace is the only one in which the pasteboard makes a return.
Alexander,
I wasn't sure what you are after. Still I'm not, perhaps…
If you want the zero point at the upper left corner of the left most page of a spread:
1. Reset the zero point by double-clicking the cross-hair between the vertical and horizontal rulers
2. Make sure that the ruler origin is set to Spread Origin.
To change that, right-click on the ruler and some options will show up.
From my German InDesign:
Regards,
Uwe
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