Losing extended rights in Reader 9

I use Acrobat 9 pro to extend rights to Reader 8/9 users to add comments etc. in PDF documents, including forms. I have recently noticed a rise in the number of users who have lost the right to edit documents after saving a couple of times. Not all can have used Acrobat to save by accident, nor are they all saving copies of the original. The same documents can be edited and saved repeatedly on other Reader 9 installations. The only thing I can think of is that I have performed a registry edit on some installations in order to overcome the bugs in the loupe, typewriter and / or pan tools (cAV, set large numbers to 0) although they seemed alright at the time. Any thoughts welcome.

Hi Niall,
Thanks for the reply.
But both my ADS (Adobe document service) server and my development / test environment are in same location thus same time Zone.
Also how does this imapct the form.
Lets say I created version 0001 @ 1:00 PM
Version 0002 is created @ 1:05 PM
I opened v 0002 in edit mode @ 1:30 PM at all times since I am in same environment this shouldn't hamper the process unless I opened the 0002 version in edit @ 1:30 Pm and if this publication from the server had a turnaround time of 2 minutes then by the time i see the form its 1:32 PM.
Can this be the reason...?
Thanks & Regards,
Sai

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