Fillable fields disappearing in Acrobat pro 9

I am having a problem with a fillable form I distributed where some are being returned with fields that have been deleted.
Here are the details I have so far:
When I say deleted I do not just mean blank. When I tell the form to highlight fields there will be no field on specific pages and when I try to examine the document I can find nothing on those pages. Every problem pdf is missing the same field on page three while some are misssing other fields as well.
Security is enabled. I am not able to edit these pdfs. It appears they have enabled usage rights in Adobe Reader. However, save as copy only removes this about half the time and never brings back the fields.
When I try to save as copy I usually get the message "There was a problem reading this doucment (110)" The file will save, but I still cannot edit.
Sometimes I will get the error that this file may be read only, or another user may have it open. In this case the file will save and I may then be able to edit it, but the missing fields do not return.
If I look at properties these files are not marked read-only.
I can get both of these errors for the same file at diffrent times and I have not figured out why.
I can supposedly export data from these pdfs but when I try to import the data into a working copy of the same form it stays blank.
We have had problems before with copies of this form prepared on Macs appearing blank, but we were easily able to import the data into a new form so that it became visible. However in this case several people have already mentioned that they were already using a PC or sent a new copy from PC which had the same problems.
This form has been in use for a while but this appears to be a recent problem. We sent it out two months ago and only recieved one copy with this problem. This time we suddenly have about 1 in 30 forms returned with this problem. Everyone I have been able to contact about this has said they are still able to see the missing fields on their computers.
I am using Adobe acrobat pro 9 and as far as I know it has not undegone any majoy updates recently. I still do not know if there is any trend specific to the people filling out these forms.
Thank you for any help. I have been trying to troubleshoot this for a few days but have not found anything that fixes this specific problem.

Is the file size of these problem files similar to the original blank version or is it significantly larger? Can you confirm what PDF viewer the user used (e.g., Adobe Reader, Microsoft Reader, etc.)? How are the forms being returned to you? It would be helpful to be able to look at a sample, but my guess is the file has become corrupted somehow.

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