Variable Form Data - PDF Merge Issue

I created a VB program, using Acrobat 5 and the FDFToolkit, that took variable data and populated a form and saved it. It then populated another form and then saved it. Each form is a set of cards 9-Up double sided.
When this process completed it merged the pages together. It works fine Acrobat 5, but I can't seem to use it with any other version. Now, each individual fdf and pdf have the correct data, but when I merge them each page is identical. Where might I be going wrong?

For the most part, I just added the following at the appropriate places within my code and it works great in Acrobat X now.
Bernd - Thank you very much for the direction.
Dim oJS as Object
set oPDDoc = createobject("AcroExch.Pddoc")
set oJS = oPDdoc.GetJSObject
oJS.flattenpages

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