Duplicating Text Boxes in Adobe 9

I hope someone can help. In Adobe 8 I use to be able to create a text box with text then duplicate it on as many pages as I selected. How do I do this in version 9?

It is able to be done, but it is much more complicated. I switched from Adobe 7 where it was a simple right click of the text box to duplicate. Now you need to do the following:
Click Forms
---> Add or Edit Fields
Click "No" when it asks if you want to let Acrobat detect the form fields.
Then right click on you document and select "Text Field". Draw your text box like normal. You can then right click on your text box and duplicate like you used to be able to. When you are done, you click the "Close Form Editing" button in the upper right hand corner. To alter your text boxes, you go back to Forms---> Add or Edit Fields.
I don't like how this has been changed, and if anyone knows of a simpler way of doing, I would like to know too.
Adobe, you made some terrible changes to your software.

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