Illustrator to layered PDF problems

I used MAPublisher 7 to create a map in Adobe Illustrator CS2. I now want to save as a layered PDF to view in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.
All of my AI layers are top-level layers but when I save out as a layered PDF half of the layers come across empty!
The layers I'm struggling with contain nothing but symbols. Some of these layers work, others (as I say) are empty.
Can anyone help? Please!

Okay, I was being slightly foolish. The answer is simply to expand all the symbol vectors so that they are nolonger associated with MAPublisher. Now they export to layered PDF no matter how many.

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