"Invalid Annotation Object" error, can't save

Hi,
my dad's been working on a 50+ page .pdf document (adding annotations etc.) for several hours. When adding the most recent annotation, it showed a popup window saying "Invalid Annotation Object". No matter how many times we press "OK", the popup shows again. We can't even save the document or close it normally. I know he can always force close Reader, but that won't save the document. There's a .tmp file in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\AutoSave, would that help me recover the document if I force closed the window? Or is there any way we could save the document?
The OS is Windows 7. Thanks!

Make a copy of that file to a different location before closing the application. Then force-close it and re-open, and see if it tries to recover the file. If not then you can use the .tmp file, just rename it first to .pdf ...

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