Can't See Form Fields in Acrobat 9

I created a form using the wizard. When I went in to create additional fields in the form field editor all the fields were gone and each field I added disappeared as well. My OS is 32 bit Windows 7 Pro. Everything is patched up to current levels. Someone told me they though this as a Windows accessibility setting my those must be for XP or something because the same settings don't exist in my version of Windows.
I can't see forms in any document in the forms editor.
Tom

I concur with TSN. What I see is shown below:
That looks reasonable. I assume this is also what TSN was seeing. The fonts are all normal Arial fonts. Even if you are on a MAC, I think the Arial would be replaced by Helvetica for viewing. 2 of the fonts are not embedded and you may not have the fonts on your system, explaining the viewing problem. The same is probably true for all the other PDFs you mentioned. You may want to see if you can add the Arial fonts to your system (again, we have no idea what that is).

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