Disabling forms/highlight fields in a PDF

Hello, all,
I've created a button-heavy PDF in inDesign and the exported result is giving me some problems. It's prompting the highlight fields/"please fill out the following form" in Acrobat. How, how, how in the WORLD can I get rid of it? There is no form to fill out, only a lot of buttons (some of them within text) and I can't delete them or else I lose interactivity. I just need to force the forms prompt to go away, if possible. Is there a Javascript solution out there?
Thanks so much!

Thanks for replying! I had no idea about the buttons being form fields! The Javascript idea (though I'm crap at it) is a good one for the future, but this project has gotten out of hand as it is.
I think I may have solved the problem, though -- by accident! I need to assign password access to the document for read/write, and it seems to have taken away the dialog box. I can only hope...
Thanks again!

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