After closing Acrobat Reader X, can't make further changes!

Hello,
I downloaded a passport application and began completing the form, which I then closed, to finish later. The form is "non-interactive", but within Acrobat Reader, I was able to click and create text boxes within the fields. All good, until I reopened the form and found I could no longer make changes. My old information was there, but now if I try to create a field, nothing happens. And when I try to select the text boxes to edit them, a light blue outline appears, but I can't alter the content or resize the boxes.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Is there a better way to be doing this. As this sort of use is something I'd do on a very infrequent basis, it doesn't really work for me to buy editing software, so am hoping I'm just missing a setting that would allow me to re-enable editting.
Thanks!
Gus

Thanks for checking it out. Can you please search for Acrobat in Spotlight, it could be that Acrobat is not present in Applications or Utilities but at some other location on your system(may be other disk volume). I am saying this because Reader does not provide the functionality to create text boxes. So if you were able to create text box in the first place then you either had Acrobat or may be some third party pdf editing tool.
thanks,
hit.anand

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