Can't Edit Text- LiveCycle Designer 8.0

I've been using Livecycle for years and I've always opened up certain documents, edited the text, field boxes, etc.
All of a sudden, I go to edit a PDF in Livecycle (same pdf that I've always edited) and everything is locked. I can't delete, add text, move fields, nothing... It seems that the whole page got locked somehow. Any ideas on how to get it back to normal so that I can make edits? I'm using Windows Vista, Adobe Acrobat 8- Livecycle Designer 8.0.
Thank you!

I can lock selected fields, and confirm that I can't move them around in designer. Then I can unlock those fields, and confirm that I now can move them around in designer. But in either case, I cannot edit the fields in the preview window. When the document is viewed in either Acrobat Pro or Reader, the fields can be edited. This is just a problem with the Preview window in Livecycle Designer, and it is a huge hinderence to the person developing the form (a different developer).
Interestingly, if I create a form in Designer and send it to this developer, the Preview window does work. But for any form this other developer creates, the Preview window editing is disabled, even when she sends it to me. So, I suspect it is setting somewhere...but darn if I can figure out what setting/where.

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> practically
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> Hi,
>
> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
> practically
> the whole page content is inside it.
> In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all
times) if I click
> inside it
> to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag. The
cursor becomes like a
> cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes outlined with
a thick blue line,
> and
> I can't edit the text no matter how much times I click.
If I move the
> mouse
> with left button pressed, this moves the DIV and changes
the .css file
> where
> the position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with
Escape, left or
> right
> clicking.
> The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in
the code view,
> then
> go back to design view where hopefully text can be
edited. Sometimes I
> have to
> repeat this twice or even 3 times , it's extremely
annoying and time
> consuming.
>
> Is there any workaround?
> Like to disable selection of containers in design view,
or at least a
> quick
> way to deselect the current selection?
>
> This problem does not appear in DW8 when editing the
same files.
>
> thanks
>
>

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