Edit Form in Acrobat Pro 9.4.2

I have a form I created in an earlier version of Acrobat about 12 months ago. I've now been called upon to edit this same form and, surprise surprise, I can no longer edit it.
There are no security settings in place in the file.
Where before I had the option to edit or add fields via the Form menu, this doesn't seem to be available anymore. There's this nifty (note the sarcasm) little Form Wizard which doesn't like this file at all.
From what I'm reading, I'm not seeing any way that I can fix this, short of redesigning the form and creating everything from scratch and hope it works, using some Adobe online form thingy or switching to some form designer thing that comes with the PC version of Acrobat.
Any suggestions?
I love Adobe's stuff as a general rule but I'm not loving this. I'm also not loving the whole upgrade thing - can't upgrade Acrobat in CS5 because it isn't a stand alone product. But you're welcome to buy a whole new copy of it! Wtf? And while I'm ranting, what the hell is up with the difference in upgrade price between Australia and the US? The AU dollar is almost at parity and has been for ages and yet if I was stupid enough to upgrade to Pro X it would cost me over a $100 more to buy it in Australia, even if it's a digital download. This sucks so bad and I hate that we get screwed over down here with stuff like this. How can it cost more for the same product with no actual physical product supplied?
And if I have to upgrade to get my form sorted then I think I'm gonna start looking back at Quark and any other alternative. All the things that we hated about Quark is exactly what Adobe has turned into.

Yeah, I know, but what can you do? Can only try and describe as fully as possible what the problem is and hope for the best!
PDF Producer = Adobe PDF Library 8.0
PDF Version = 1.6 (Acrobat 7.x)

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