"Manually" creating U3D files to import into Acrobat XI

Has anyone here ever successfully tried to "manually" create a U3D file and open it in a Acrobat XI to save it as a PDF file?
I am currently coding an U3D export filter for our self-developed CAD application. The resulting files (containing simple polygon meshes) can be opened and displayed by a commercial U3D viewer (SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer 7.0), but Acrobat X and Acrobat XI cannot open them. They only display useless standard "Unable to open" message.
Sample U3D files from the web open correctly in Acrobat XI although I fail to see any relevant difference when comparing them to the files my filter creates.
Our U3D files only feature a default view and a few, simple polygon meshes created using CLOD Mesh Declaration and CLOS Base Mesh Continuation. Everything is correctly contained in modifier chains. The file does not use compression.
I checked the "U3D Supported Elements" documents from Adobe and I'm sure to have met all conditions therein.
Any help or tip would be very much appreciated because I am out of ideas what to try...
Best regards
Stefan Malz

For an illustration of my problem, here is a most simple file that I created:
http://www.cad6.com/archive/Merge1.u3d
This file opens correctly in SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer 7.0, but not in Acrobat XI Pro. A similiar file destilled from a sample file found on the web, however, works:
http://www.cad6.com/archive/Merge2.u3d
The only difference I can see is that is uses compression and a CLOD Progressive Mesh Continuation instead of a CLOD Base Mesh Continuation. But according to the latest version of "U3D Supported Elements", this should not make any difference.
Any idea why Merge1.u3d does not open? Please?!
Best regards
Stefan Malz

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