Apple Preview and Interactive PDF Issue

Hello all - I'm having trouble with exporting an Interactive PDF for Preview in which the content boxes align and print identical to that of Adobe Acrobat. See below for pictures. The text out of the boxes are on Apple Preview.
Any help in the matter would be appreciated. Thanks!
http://imgur.com/DVjFLGz
http://imgur.com/wEmtEs4

Hey Grant,
thank you so much for your effort. But I have to say that that's not the solution for my problem.
You see my interactive features work perfectly with Adobe Reader 8. But with the Reader 10 it jsut won't work.
I've created a pdf for you to see but I ripped it off all its former content:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/824709/Adobe%20Test.pdf
and here's the .indd file
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/824709/Adobe%20Test.indd
You see, I want the buttons if clicked appear in another state and show a different Picture.
And now it even seems to work. But when I tried it again with all the content the pictures won't change anymore

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