Cannot open pdf created from website

Hi, I am trialling Acrobat V9 Pro (on Win XP SP2, 1Gb RAM) and have tried to create a pdf from a multilayered website. It all appears to work fine (looks great in Acrobat), but when I try and open the resulting pdf in Acrobat Reader (v5) I get the old "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired" message.
I did a test with a single page web page conversion and that opened fine in Reader. And also with a different urled multilayered website, and that failed. How do I get this honey to work for me???
Thanks in advance

Being able to read a web site is problematic. The fact that you got the first one is good, but that does not mean Acrobat will work with all of the web variations. One way to get the web site (but not as interactive in a PDF form) is to print to the Adobe PDF printer from a browser that can read the site. If you need more on the issues or what works folks would need the URL of the web site to provide more info.
For AR5, how did you transfer the PDF to AR5? Did you save the PDF from AA9 in AR5 compatible mode (likely the problem)? If not, you will need to use PDF Optimize (or Reduce File Size if you can find it in AA9) to save to be compatible with AR5. Most of the time, the newer PDFs will open, but may be missing things. It sounds like you have a case where compatibility has finally be come a viewing issue.

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