"Incorrect structure found in PDF file"?

I put together multi-page seminar presentations by using the Acrobat "Create PDF from Multiple Files" command to join together individual PDFs acquired elsewhere or generated by Mathematica or Illustrator, and then reorganizing these pages in Acrobat.
Fairly often, when I try to Delete an unwanted one these pages using Acrobat's Document >> Delete Pages menu command I get the error message "An incorrect structure was found in the PDF file", and the page simply refuses to delete (workaround is then to move it to the end of the file.
Is there any way to cure or avoid these problems? Or a diagnostic I could run on the errant document? For example, to clean up the "incorrect structure" could I:
--Burst (Extract) the file back to individual pages, run each individual page through a Save or Save As process in Acrobat or Illustrator?
--Do the preceding on every page before assembling the first time?
--Buy a whole new suite of Adobe programs?
Doing a Save or Save As on the complete file doesn't seem to help.
[This happen on a MacBook running Tiger (OS 10.4), Acrobat 7.0 Standard, Illustrator CS 7.0. Send me an email; I'll forward a cc of one of these files.]

In response to questions from Leonard Rosenthol:
Is it really 7.0 or are you current with 7.0.9? ==> It's 7.0.9
It is 10.4 or are you current with 10.4.9? ==> 10.4.10 actually
Happens only "every now and then" -- maybe 1 time in 10 -- don't identify any common factors or causes when it happens.
Must confess: I have maybe couple thousand PDF slides total, captured off the net, obtained by printing to PDF on Mac, generated in Mathematica, created from misc photos, pulled out of Word docs and tech reports, etc, etc. All organized pretty well in folders, cataloged with iView, but no records kept of where they came from.
Not a killer problem -- just makes me worry a little -- and wonder, if I understood the cause, could I fix the source slide that's maybe causing it -- or at least identify the problem slide.

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