Interactive PDF meltdown with InDesign CS5

Howdy,
I've just switched from InDesign CS3 to CS5 and I was creating interactive PDF's for my portfolio.
I work as a retoucher and all I was doing was making an image change from the "before" to the "after" image when the cursor rolledover the image. Easy-peasy job done.
For some unknown reason, when I now open my images in Acrobat, the images are terribly pixelated and the rollovers do not work.
It seems the images have to be at 300dpi, whereas before I can downsample them a little to reduce file size and still get a creditable "before" and "after" pic.
Now it's just a mess mith a massive file size! This seems to have happened all by itself and it's gone into meltdown!
Any ideas welcome

Rollovers are currently not working properly, we expect a fix shortly.
InDesign's PDF export system does not have any connection to Acrobat, so your main question needs to be posted on the InDesign forums.

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