Document compare in Acrobat 9 a backwards step?

It looks like Adobe in their infinite wisdom have dumbed-down the document compare in Acrobat 9.
In Acrobat 8 and before it used to be possible to do a quick-and-easy text comparison to highlight differences between documents. Now there are 3 (undefined) ways of comparing documents, none of which are suitable for comparing two mostly textual documents. The 250 page limit is madness too - many of our documents are 1000+ pages which Acrobat 8 used to handle perfectly well.
Is there any way of getting the old (Acrobat 8) document compare functionality back?

I'm afraid I don't have help for you, David, but I fully support your subject line!
When I used Acrobat 8, I was able to do fairly quick and really effective document comparisons, in which Acrobat 8 focused on what I asked it to focus on (especially text). With Acrobat 9, I no longer have this control, and the comparison quality is horrendous. Acrobat 9 arbitrarily treats some text as images, fails to see blatantly-obvious differences, reports no differences in blatantly-obvious changed text content, and also reports some "ghost changes" (such as multiple "matching graphic not found" messages around words in blocks of text where no graphics ever existed).
I'm disappointed as well.
--Michael

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