Layers in CS4 - PDF?

Hi All,
Weird thing... When we used Illustartor CS3, we could save a file as a PDF file, and retain all of the layers. Now, with CS4, when we save it as a PDF file, the layers are flattened. This is not good for us as we use an Onyx RIP that seems more comfortable with PDF files than AI files, so we save all of our files as PDF files, but we need them to retain their layers! This worked fine in CS3... We save 10-20 files a day and are forced to keep using CS3 on one computer until this is fixed.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Evan

Hi Wade,
Sorry, was off of this project for a while but am now back to it.
I think I may hav egiven the wrong impression. I'm not worried about opening the PDF file in Acrobat. What we do is save the file as a PDF so that our RIP (Onyx ProductionHouse) can utilize it, but then we need to be able to open it back up in Illustrator and edit it. When I do that, the layers are combined into one layer, whether or not "Create Acrobat Layers from Top-Level Layers" is checked or not.
In CS3, this worked fine... we could save a file with four layers as a PDF file, then open the PDF file back up in Illustrator and all of the layers were still intact. It's just in CS4 that this has stopped working.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks again,
Evan

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> the
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>
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> the
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