Unable to save changes to embedded PDF inside Excel 2007

I'm using Excel 2007 & opening a document (in xls format).  I embed an Acrobat 9 Pro PDF file into it.  I right-click on the embedded PDF & choose Open, then make changes to it & try to save but I get "The document could not be saved.  Cannot write to this file.  Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder" error.  How do you edit embedded PDF documents inside Excel 2007?  Note: I can save the PDF externally, then edit it and put it back inside the Excel workbook.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Amita
actually when i tried to modify the XDP file, i found that for all DCs in that particular track no XDP file has been generated. also that the templateSource property of the InteractiveForm UI Element is blank while as it should point to the template on file system.
  i checked the SAPNote 822198 as suggested on this thread Link: [Adobe Document Server issues - cannot save metadata of interactive form UI; but it has not solved my issue.
can you please suggest wat the issue might be??
Regards,
Deepak Salokhe

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