Adobe PDFMaker doesn't convert layers from Visio 2010

I'm wondering if anybody else is seeing this behavior after converting to Visio 2010...
I have a Visio cross-functional flowchart (CFF,) using "swimlanes." My shapes in this flowchart are organized into various layers withinin Visio. When I convert to .pdf, the pdf document displays the layers (along with the "eyeball" for selecting & deselecting layers,) but the layers do not "hide" when you deselect them.
This problem occurs when using Adobe Acrobat Pro version 8,9, or X. The problem occurs no matter which .pdf converter I use, and it makes no difference whether I initiate the conversion from within visio or externally. The problem occurs in documents built from scratch in 2010, and in documents converted from version 2007.
Interestingly, the problem only occurs when the Visio document is a CFF with swimlanes. Without swimlanes, all layers can be properly hidden & unhidden in the .pdf.
Can anybody out there successfully display&hide layers in their .pdf generated from a Visio 2010 CFF? Thanks for any thoughts! : - )

I had the same problem today using Visio 2010 & Acrobat Pro X, but having used Vision layers before, I did the following:
copied the shapes from the CFF without the frame onto a new blank vsd
the layer properties transferred normally with them
& discovered that:
the layers could be exported to pdf using the Acrobat Create option (check the preferences first)
all of the layer settings worked fine.
I then transferred the CFF "frame" (with swimlanes) onto the new vsd
the layers seemed to export ok
NONE of the layer settings worked in the pdf.....
The only workaround would be to manually create the frame with rectangles on the copied shapes....
I added these to their own "swimlane" layer & the whole export & result worked fine.

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