Acrobat 9 Pro - Text Distortion on adding background

Hello,
I hope someone can help me with this as it's driving me up the wall!
In ye olde days of version 8 my work flow used to go like this:
Write XYZ in MS Word 2007.
Export to PDF.
Open up exported PDF and see the crisp and soft lovelyness of my chosen none standard font displayed in front of me.
I would then add our companies background to all the pages in the PDF (a PDF I created full page from Illustrator CS3).
Pop the front and rear covers on.
Send to a client or whatever.
Now we have upgraded to Acrobat 9 I have a bit of an issue.
I go along the same route and all is fine until I add the background (I can even add the pages in before the background and it's fine).
As soon as the background is added the font goes from crisp and smooth to bolder and jaggier and no matter what I do I just can't clean it out.
At the moment we have only had to send out one document like this, but they are backing up until I can get this fixed, it's not something we can realistically show to a client when we are supposed to be graphic designers and pride ourselves on our output.
Any ideas?
Regards
Paul

Thanks for your suggestion! That actually did work pretty well.
I had set up all the fields as non-rich text, cut and pasted the text into the fields, and then change the fields back to rich text to format them (ie superscript, subscript etc).
Unfortunately, now I'm faced with another problem.
I won't be able to add more "unformatted" text later on easily. It appears that to do so, I would have to change the fields to non-rich text which wipes out all the formatting I've already applied.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Trish

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