Can't do digital signatures

Using Acrobat STD 9.2.0 on Win7, when I try to sign a document, I get the digital signature window showing my signature, but when I selct the SIGN button, it does nothing. It worked before. Any ideas on the fix or how to troublshoot this?
Thanks,
John

Not sure if this is any kind of a solution for the problems mentioned so far, but I discovered I was making a silly misteake trying to get my sigs to appear randomly (See the April issue of Macworld for the details from Christopher Breen). While I had created a dozen or so sigs, the next step was to select "At Random" in the "Choose Signature" pop up menu. But, that menu was greyed out/disabled! What's going on?! 8-| Not until I wrote to Mr. Breen, did I notice that the pane on the left of the window is NOT a list of accounts only. WHile all your accounts are there, the very top item is probably called "All Signatures." DOH! As long as that is what is 'selected' that "Choose Signature" pop up will be disabled. Amazingly, Mail provides a single place to store as many sigs as you want but it also provides a way to put as many of them or as few of them as you want in any account! That's a simple drag and drop operation, of course. Sooo....
If you can't seem to get that "Choose Signature" pop up to be active/available, one of two things may be the problem. 1. You may not actually have any sigs in that account! 2. You don't actually have any account selected/highlighted.
Hope that helps someone making the same errerz eye did! [blush]

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