Acrobat X font question

I've created a simple fill-in form. Somehow, I ended up with two versions. One uses the Arial and Arial Bold font, the other the Helvetica and Helvetica Bold font. Given the same input, the fill in with Arial/Arial Bold is much larger - one page is about 500 meg versus about 150 meg for Helvetica. I don't care what font is used, but by the time I realized the issue there were hundreds filled in.
I stumbled across the issue when I tried to "optimize" the forms, and did an "Audit Space Usage". the Arial/Arial Bold PDF has the font as about 72% of the file size, while the Helvetica/Helvetica Bold has the font as using about 1 1/2% of the file size.
I would like to either convert the completed forms to Helvetica/Helvetica Bold or somehow reduce the font size (if possible). Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

When you select a font for a form field that is not one of the base-14 (Helvetica, Times, Courier, etc.) that are guaranteed to be available (or a suitable replacement) with Reader/Acrobat, the entire font has to be embedded, which naturally increases the size of the file. Since a version of Arial is actually used in place of Helvetica when Helvetica is specified, there is little (no?) reason to specify Arial for a form field. The problem is that even if you set the font for the fields back to Helvetica, Acrobat doesn't clean things up nearly as well as you might expect it should.
One approach is to extract the form data from the forms that use Arial and import it into a blank form that uses Helvetica, and save. This could be automated in Acrobat with some scripting.

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