Old PDFs don't accept background or watermark

I have several old PDFs, created between 1998 and 2002, and I am unable to add a background, watermark, or type text. I select Document => Background => Add/Replace and nothing happens. Same problem with Watermark (I select it; nothing occurs).
I have Adobe Acrobat 8 professional, version 8.1.1, and I'm working in Windows XP.
I also tried the typewriter tool, but when I try to save the document, I get the following message: "The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (132)."
The PDFs can't be regenerated from the original documents. Is there anything I can do to make the PDFs accept a background?
Thanks for your help!

Try a save as to a new file name and retry. There may be something going on with the version number. I would not think this would be a problem, but it is all I can think of, except the possibility that there is some security set.

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