Help merging documents while preserving global binding.

I was trying to use dynamicpdf to merge documents that have the same field names so that I can globally bind them all together.
For example, if I have 2 pdfs and they both have a first name textfield. I would like to be able to populate both by typing in either one after merging. Dynamicpdf renames the textfields and destroys the global binding after the merge.
Does Acrobat provide any tools to do this? Are there any other dotnet components that can preserve the bindings after merge?
Thanks.
Dave

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