Editing design elements in acrobat without losing field demarcation

I've created a form and as opposed to having acrobat pro 9.0 detect the fields, I've demarcated them myself using the "add text field" function. The form works great but when I open the file in indesign and resave as a pdf, I lose all the fields added.
Is there anything I can do to avoid having to go back each time and add text field to each form element everytime I have to edit the file in InDesign?
Thanks, Peter

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