Dynamic stamp lost identity

I frequently review documents and use a dynamic stamp to mark them as "Reviewed". Up until now, the dynamic stamp included my name as well as date and time information. The identity information is now missing and only includes date and time info - it seems not to pick up the identity info contained in the Identity panel in the Preferences dialog. Any ideas on how I can restore full functionality (identity info) to the dynamic stamp? I'm using Acrobat ver. 8.2.3.
Thanks!
[email address deleted by host]

Have you looked in the Acrobat JS API Reference?
identity properties
identity.name is Name
identity.email is the Email Address
There are no standard properties for Title and Organizational Unit.
You can use the following code in the Acrobat JavaScript console to see all of the properties and values of the identity object.:
for (i in identity) {
console.println(i + ": " + identity[i]);

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