Clip notes still busted

Hi,
I love the Clip Notes feature! It stands out among NLE's. However, it no longer appears to work when exporting from CS3 and opened in Reader 9. There have been a handful of posts about this in the last year, without any resolution. I am wondering if there can be any kind of definitive answer if this will ever get fixed in CS3. It appears to be a non-issue in CS4, but we should not have to upgrade to get this fix. And it's ridiculous to say we should ask our clients to revert to Reader 8 after they have Reader 9 installed. The whole point of Clip Notes is to make things simpler.
This is a very basic and important fix request.
Please help!
Brett

It is unlikely (read: impossible) that any more updates to CS3 will be
posted. Development of updates for CS4 is in full swing, and I suspect
that CS5 is also in work.
Reversion to Reader 8 is the only solution available. It is not a good
solution, since the gaping security holes in 8 were closed in 9, and
then closed again in 9 with a patch. Closing those security holes
disabled a lot of functionality in certain .pdf files, even among
Adobe's own apps.
-Jeff

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