Indesign CS5 to Interactive PDF buggy?

I spent the last couple days, on and off, working with Indesign CS5 on OSX to create an interactive PDF.
Using Lynda.com as a resource, I set up some nice animations that were exporting well. I refined them and was prepared to finish up today. This morning, however, things stopped working. My animations Preview well in Indesign, but after creating the SWF, and placing it -- or even using a SWF I created yesterday--the export is not working. The Export to Interactive PDF is not the most difficult part of the process and I couldn't have forgotten *everything* over night! It was working fine yesterday.
Anyway, I tried rebooting. Creating a new, fresh Indesign document. Doing a fresh animation, using much simpler components. Using different versions of Reader (I have 9, 10 and 8 loaded). Nothing works. I'm not sure what the problem is but part of my animation gets clipped, and/or the Acrobat view is *always* wrong no matter what setting I choose. The whole things is a mess and I'm abandoning the project which I had hoped to include as part of my proposal today. Oh well, it's not a key element, but it would have been nice.
Anyone having similar problems or know why this might be happening???

I can tell you what they'll tell you in the Acrobat forum: PDF is considered a FINAL format. It's not intended (or constructed) to be work the way you would like.
allow the end user to be able to modify the text in each section so they can personalize it as necessary. Additionally, I want them to be able to add thier own logo to the newsletter.
The only thing that approaches what you want is creating form fields in InDesign that can be filled out when a user received the PDF document.
If each recipient had a full copy of PAID Acrobat application, they could make minor changes in text and pictures. To have the greatest capabilities, they would need to own the latest version, Acrobat XI, which has stronger editing features than earlier versions of Acrobat.

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