Adding pages in Acrobat 9 Pro (secured document)

I am about to switch to a new computer. The old one had Acrobat 8 Professional and the new one has Acrobat 9 Pro.
I produce a certain kind of files where, after I have printed it to a pdf, I take a copy of the pdf. One of the files I leave as it is, the other one (with a slight namechange, I add a blank page to every other page.
This is how I did it in Acrobat 8:
Open the file
Change the security setting (temporarily remove it so I can add pages, when I close the file the security is automatically turned on again)
Click on Pages/Options/Insert page
Go to the place where I have my one blank page (with no security added)
Insert it after page 1
Ctrl-click and drag so I copy the page to every other page.
Save and close
When I try to do this in 9 the following happens:
First when I go to Pages/Options/Insert page I have to choose "from file". Irritating with extra more step, but I can live with that.
I add the empty page after page 1 and then try to ctrl-click and drag, but it doesn't work. I get an error message that I will try to translate (I am Swedish):
"Pages retrieved from a secured file looses its security settings. Do you want to continue?"
What is this? I have temporarily removed the security settings (Secure/Show security properties/Change Settings/fill in password/OK/Cancel) just as it says in the help file. If I the click on Secure, all is permitted. When I save and exit and reopen that file, the security is there again.
As it is temporarily without security this should work as in Acrobat 8!!
I now have 2 options:
1. Add the empty page after every other page manually (Insert page instead of copying the one I already inserted)
or
2. Permanently remove the security and then remember to turn it on (lots of steps) before I save the file.
The files are usually about 20 pages, so I have to do step 1 10 times.... I usually do about 15-20 of these files at one time, so this is a problem that will be very time consuming for me.
Could someone please tell me what's happening and maybe give me an idea about a way to work around it?
Lena, Sweden

The reason every other page must be blank is because the files are start-up reports for climate control units, that the technician has to fill in. We print it as a book and as every other page is blank, only the right hand pages are printed. Then the technician can have the report on a hard board and easily fill in/go to the next page. I have done this exactly the same way since Acrobat 5, and I have done it this way for so long time now that I am afraid I will forget to turn it on again one I have turned it off...
The reason why I don't make the document with blank pages from the beginning is that the report must be in 2 versions; one with the empty pages for us to print when a customer buys a unit, and one without that we have on our web-site, for the customers to download. Also, I have about 1.000 of these reports so adding a lot of blank pages in FrameMaker (where I make them) is a time-consuming job. Better to add the pages after I have produced the pdf, then I don't need double FM-files (and don't need to change in 2 documents when I have to change something).
Clerarer now?
Lena

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