Pdf form fields populate sporatically

I have a coldfusion application that populates several dozen fields in a pdf form using the following tags:
<cfpdfform action="populate" source="my.pdf">
    <cfpdfsubform name="P1">
       <cfpdfformparam name="text1" value="test">
   </cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfform>
I had all of the fields populating correctly and then something happened and now i only get some of them. go figure?! P1 is the form on page 1. I also have a form on page 2, P2. I have verified all of the field names, and location, i.e. that they are on the correct subform, but i still only get about half of the fields populating and no error message!
Anyone have any tips for troubleshooting this, apart from using a reeaally big hammer?
Thanks, Alex

If you use LiveCycle, rename the first subform "form1". Is there any change?

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