Interactive PDF still opens as form

Why hasn't this problem been solved with the release of InDesign CS5?
The problem, which as been discussed in previous posts with previous versions of InDesign, is that multi-page, somewhere over 20 pages, documents exported as interactive PDFs result in displaying the purple forms bar in Acrobat. In the previous threads, work arounds have been discussed and others have decided that "living with it" is acceptable.
Come on Adobe! Please fix this. Give the user the option to export an interactive PDF with multiple pages without turning it into a form. I expect that I can create an elegant solution for my clients. I expect the same from Adobe.

Thanks Bob.
D o n
From: BobLevine <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:57:41 -0600
To: Don Craig <[email protected]>
Subject: Interactive PDF still opens as form
Don't ask us. Report it to Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
FWIW, I'm still not sure if it's an InDesign issue or an Acrobat issue. My
money's on the latter, though.
Bob
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