Autodetect checkboxes in LiveCycle Designer 8.0......

I have made several documents in Frame maker 7.2 with check boxes. After exporting the documents to Acrobat Pro 8.0 I would like to use a form to make the documents "active". When using the auto detect function in LiveCycle Designer it detects my text fields but not my check boxes. Does anyone have a clue how to make this work??
Help!!!!
/BP

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