Locking down multiple PDF's at a time

We want to lock down multiple PDFs at once, meaning we do not want people to be able to save the files or copy text in the PDFs.  When we turn it on one at a time we go to File- Properties- Security tab and change the security method to Password security and so on. We would love to find a way to change that on multiple PDFs at a time. I have done searches for how to do this and they say to click on advanced- Document processing- Batch processing. I am using acrobat 9 Standard and I am not able to see batch processing. Do I need to upgrade to Pro? Or is there a different way to accomplish this task that I am missing?
Thanks

I have upgraded to PRO and I still only see this. When I did the install I told it to do a complete install. Is there a plug-in that I need to have for this to work? Any other ideas would be helpful.
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