Acrobat X Pro - can't simply deskew PDF docs

We run Adobe Acrobat X Pro (Windows 7 32-bit PCs). No other versions are available.
I have a PDF file created several years ago from scanned pages. These consist of text, line drawings, and some photographs. All pages are gray-scale.
Some of the pages are skewed by 10-15 degrees. I want to deskew them. I do not want to compress or process anything else.
I have read dozens of web pages on how to do this, but none seem applicable. My main efforts have been via Tools | Document Processing | Optimize Scanned PDF. There I uncheck "Apply Adaptive Compression" and "Make Searchable". Under Filters I set Deskew ON and the other three (Descreen etc) OFF.
--> When I click on OK (Optimize Scanned PDF), every page is processed - but no deskew is applied. The document appears identical to when I started.
Further info: If I do enable "Apply Adaptive Compression", with other settings as above, the pages ARE deskewed. However, my images are always degraded unacceptably, regardless of the compression options I try.
--> How can I have Acrobat X Pro simply deskew the document?
It's hard to believe that such a basic function would be totally broken. I hope that I'm missing something.
Thanks

I purchased Acrobat Pro XI last month to try to digitize all my text books (Scanned as TIFF and imported to PDF). I've been pretty unimpressed in general. Specifically to your question, it seems that if a page has a photo on it or some complex image, Acrobat won't deskew it. My version updated just today to 11.0.06 and it still has this problem. I think it does deskew when "Apply Adaptive Compression" is selected because that option causes each page to be broken into parts (text/image).
Just incase you haven't tried, on the Optimize Scanned PDF dialoge box, make sure the slider is set to "High Quality" instead of "Small Size", that may help with the image quality. In my tests, I ended up leaving it turned up all the way.
I have finally put together a workflow to deal with the problem. I use Acrobat to extract each page as a TIFF to a separate directory. I use a third party program to deskew and crop the images. I use Acrobat to reassemble them into a PDF. I use Text Recognition/In this File (Searchable Image Exact) to do OCR.
I am pleased with the results though Acrobat tries to OCR a lot of images and I just get a bunch of jumbled invisible text on my images. I don't mind it though cuz it's invisible, but pretty pathetic given the cost of this product.
I'll mention the third party program I use in a post below because I don't know if I'm allowed to post it or not. I just don't want this post to be deleted for mentioning another program.
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