Acrobat losing changes, reverts to a much-earlier saved version

The only place I found someone else with the same problem was in the Reader forum, so I'm going to post this here as well. (Please excuse the duplication.) This has happended twice, with two different docts. I'm working on forms that were created by someone else, I don't know what version of Acrobat. But I'm using v. 8, and I've had no problem with about a dozen similar docts. In fact, the problem occurred when I was using a new doct created from a "save as" version of another doct that never gave me a problem. All this to say, I don't think it's a corrupted doct. After this first happened yesterday, I noticed that the "save" button (and menu option) were sometimes grayed out - even AFTER typing new text or other changes. So I decided to start doing "save as" frequently, which seemed to be working okay. But just now Acrobat crashed, and when I re-opened my doct it was a version from maybe a half hour ago,and I had done a "save as" at least 8 to 10 times since then. Does anyone of anything that could be causing this??

Hello GailCNYC
I only have Reader so it's not like I got a lot of experience with Acrobat.
What I do have is many years of experience as PC troubleshooter. 
Though it in this case is hard trouble-shooting a program I don't have access to using then I can still use general experience to comment on your problems.
It seems to me that both "Reader" and "Acrobat" got some bugs of a multitude of nature.....
But let us revert to your initial post where you wrote :
"But just now Acrobat crashed, and when I re-opened my doct it was a version from maybe a half hour ago,and I had done a "save as" at least 8 to 10 times since then. Does anyone know of anything that could be causing this??"
We might be looking at two problems here.....
1) The "problem" that when a program crashes it may "revert" to some former state to which the program has saved and were thus "aware of" is something well known and can sometimes be expected from some programs - some programs just looses it all when they crashes....
2) Your "general save problem" :
Since I don't got Acrobat and haven't worked with it I ofcourse can't offer you the benefit of any personal experiences with the program ,
but I can however ask "an obvious question" and give "an obvious suggestion" that might be of use should you be experiencing a "bug" with the Acrobat program...   
My question and suggestion is (and I do not understand why no-one else has got to this before) :
You wrote : "So I decided to start doing "save as" frequently" ,
Yes ! OK ! but when using "save as" did you then use the "old filename" and overwrite your "last save"/"original file" ??? , my guess is that you do/did .   Then if you should be experiencing a bug with the Acrobat program then my suggestion is as follows :
Try saving your edits to a new name EVERY time when using "save as" , like naming them "my-file-save-A-0001" to/through "my-file-save-A-9999" .
If wont fix your eventual Acrobat program bug (and might be considered a "pest" to work with by you) but if it works you at least won't lose the the work you have done and thus loosing your valuable time......
If it works then once in a while you can wipe out as many "back edits" as you like with your file manager plus once in a while "overwrite" the file you "wants your work to end up being" with your latest succesfully saved edit (using technique mentioned) by using your file mangager (in M.S. Windows , if you uses that , then the standard file manager is the "Explorer") .
Sorry ! , can't solve your problem with an eventual internal bug in Acrobat... but you can have my kindly suggested advice....
Kind regards

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