PDF Comments Disappear Upon Placing into InDesign CS5

I am creating an InDesign document in which I need to pull information from several files. One such file is a PDF with comments inserted via the typewriter tool.
Upon placing into InDesign, the comments do not appear, although the original text within the PDF does appear.
Will you please tell me if you know why this happens and if there is a workaround?
Thank you!

Dov Isaacs wrote:
To amplify on my previous response, executing a one line JavaScript will flatten all annotations / comments within a PDF file into the base document. This line of JavaScript is:
      this.flattenPages();
This is documented in the JavaScript API Reference that is part of the Acrobat X SDK, freely downloadable from Adobe's web site.
This function is more fully documented in the PDF file I've attached to this posting.
           - Dov
Thanks Dov - this solved the issue!

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