Debugging in Acrobat 11 (Javascript)

I am attempting to debug a folder-leel script in Acrobat 11 on the Mac.
1.) Is there any way to preserve, or to quckly re-enter watches and breakpoints between Acrobat sessions? According to the docs, for folder-level scripts, such information is not persistent between Acrobat sessions and re-adding watches between sessions is tedious when you have more than a couple.
2.) Is the debugger for Acrobat 11 on the Mac, itself a bit buggy? I've been having nothing but problems with it since I started attempting to debug a script on the Mac.
TIA!
John

Folder level scripts are kept in memory and loaded when the Acrobat/Reader application is opened and are not refreashed from the disk file.
The suggested work flow is to develop the script using the JavaScript console and then moving the code to a JS file in the application folder.

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