Acrobat Pro 8 Shared Review not annotatable by Reader 9

I am using Acrobat Pro 8 to create shared review PDFs.
Reviewers who have upgraded to Reader 9 are suddenly unable to add comments. The Comment and Markup toolbar is not displayed, and the Comment and Markup option is absent from the Tools menu and the View > Toolbars menu. If we go View > Toolbars > More Tools, then select Comment & Markup Toolbar, we get a message saying that it cannot be enabled.
We discovered that they could still annotate documents that they had previously opened with Reader 8 before upgrading to Reader 9. Reviewers using Reader 8 have none of these problems with the same document(s).
Short of my upgrading to Acrobat Pro 9 to create the shared review PDFs, is there a workaround for this?
Thanks,
Marta Cepek

Hello Vikas,
To answer your questions:
1. Do all reviewers have a local copy of the review file, or is it kept at a shared location and everyone is commenting on it.
- I have tried it both ways with the same results. Our preference is to keep the PDF in a shared location so that all reviewers can see each others' comments. (Since the problem began, we have lost that capability, and the "semi-workaround" is to email each reviewer the PDF, each reviewer makes comments locally, and emails it back to the writer. This is less than ideal as each review cannot see each other's comments... However, I was able to publish them "on behalf".
2. Are you only having trouble with publishing new comments or is it that you cannot see earlier added comments also.
Reviewers are unable to publish their newly-added comments as there is no Publish button/icon. If I have published another's comments on their behalf, they can see them. However, they cannot Reply - as the Reply button is disabled.
3. Are there some specific files with which you are having trouble or is it a generic problem.
It happens with all files, so it is generic. Anyone who has Reader 9 has no Publish button when opening a shared review generated from Acrobat 8.
Thanks for any help you can provide. We are hoping the problem resolves when we upgrade to Acrobat 9 but that alas will not be until sometime in the new year, hopefully.

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