Foolish forms fudging my fonts

Behold 4 very small pdf files.
http://www.aardvark.com/df.pdf
http://www.aardvark.com/df2.pdf
http://www.aardvark.com/dform.pdf
http://www.aardvark.com/dform2.pdf
df and dform were created with openoffice oowriter (a word clone) and exported to pdf. The font is DejaVu Sans. Note that DejaVu Sans is not a standard windows font but so what. Acrobat supposedly embeds the desired fonts.
The first, df.pdf, was loaded into acroreader and looks fine. It's then loaded into Acrobat 9.2 and, without any changes, saved as df2.pdf. So far, so good. df2.pdf looks fine in acroreader. Acrobat carried my font from df to df2.
Then dform is created (again with openoffice) by adding a text box to the original document. That's all. Just a simple ordinary harmless text box. The result is exported to dform.pdf and loaded into acroreader and, again, looks fine. I then load dform.pdf into acrobat 9.2 and immediately save it as dform2.pdf. The result (as seen in acroreader) is a mess.My DejaVu Sans text is smeared across the screen.
Looking at File->Properties->Fonts I see that my DejaVu Sans font didn't carry over from dform to dform2 the way it did from df to df2.
I had the Edit->Preferences->Cetegories->Page Display->Rendering->Use Local Fonts checkbox unchecked in each case.
The presence of a form caused my font to not be carried over.
Why? How do I fix this?
Thank you,
Apchar

For any interested parties and to close this thread... I stumbled onto a work-around. Instead of loading the pdf file into Acrobat, import it into a blank sheet using
Document->Insert Pages->From File.
It can then be saved and the fonts will carry over from the original. I don't know why but it works. For that reason I blame Acrobat and not OpenOffice.
This leaves me irritated to no end. I only wanted Acrobat so I can make forms that can be filled out in reader and saved (filled out with editable entries) by the user. It cant even do that without some coercion. I'm using the trial version but I know I'll have to buy the darned thing just so I can enable the "Extended Features in Adobe Reader." I'm left paying $300 for a temperamental file converter that does nothing but flip a bit in reader. Grumble Grumble.
Anyway, thanks to all who tried to figure this out.

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