Automating Form Creation

I have to create a set of application forms using Acrobat. My problem is that there are 12 x 6 x 5 variants, so would rather not create 360 individual forms.
At the moment the workflow is as follows:
Choose 1 of 12 Products
Open 1 of 6 applicable app form templates (inDesign)
Replace product name into [Product Name] placeholder (inDesign)
Save a PDF down of each of the 5 serial codes for each template for each product.
A simplified example:
Product1_Template1_001.pdf
Product1_Template1_002.pdf
Product1_Template1_003.pdf
Product1_Template2_001.pdf
Product1_Template2_002.pdf
Product1_Template2_003.pdf
Product1_Template3_001.pdf
Product1_Template3_002.pdf
Product1_Template3_003.pdf
Product2_Template1_001.pdf
Product2_Template1_002.pdf
Product2_Template1_003.pdf
Product2_Template2_001.pdf
Product2_Template2_002.pdf
Product2_Template2_003.pdf
Product2_Template3_001.pdf
Product2_Template3_002.pdf
Product2_Template3_003.pdf
Ad nauseum....
For each of these 360 pdfs, run app form wizard and save down (Acrobat Professional)
As you can imagine the job is complex, and I would love a way of performing some sort of automation of the actual app form creation.
A few notes (the serial codes are just a way for our client to track where the pdf originated from: i.e. tracking) If there is a different/easier way of doing this i'm all ears.
Really if anyone knows of any ways of speeding up this process in any way, i'm all ears. Thanks.

Yes, after you create the fields, you can replace the pages with pages from a different PDF and any fields will be retained. This process can be automated with the doc.replacePages JavaScript method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.522.html

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