'Malformed xref' when creating in Acrobat 9 Pro

I used a perl-based reader on a server to distribute PDFs from a website -- this has always worked, but any PDFs created with Acrobat 9 are not readable by the perl readers.
I get "Malformed xref" error.
I used the SAME file & saved in both 8 & 9.
In 8, there's a chunk like this, which is missing in 9:
xref
5 20
0000000016 00000 n
0000000894 00000 n
0000000969 00000 n
0000001145 00000 n
0000001337 00000 n
0000001396 00000 n
0000001539 00000 n
0000001682 00000 n
0000001819 00000 n
0000001955 00000 n
0000002136 00000 n
0000002419 00000 n
0000002509 00000 n
0000003701 00000 n
0000003906 00000 n
0000004230 00000 n
0000004325 00000 n
0000004413 00000 n
0000004513 00000 n
0000000696 00000 n
trailer
Can anyone shed some light?

I'm not familiar with PDF at all -- I've tried two different Perl packages: PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF. These have always worked great, but are choking on files from Acrobat 9 due to "malformed xref."
Here are the 2 files (same file, saved in different Acrobat versions):
http://www.danrichman.com/wwrea.pdf
http://www.danrichman.com/wwrea_v8.pdf
If you look at the raw files, that xref table is near the top of the "v8" file but nonexistent in the v9 file. I'm guessing this is what the Perl readers don't like.

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