PDF interactivity : page control issue (pdf file considered as a form)

Hello there,
I've got a slight but quite annoying issue when exporting a PDF from my InDesign CS3 file. Let me explain.
The file is some sort of glossary with interactive content (such as a table of content, images with over effects and text with tooltips) and two buttons on the master page which allow the user to browse the document forward or backwards (basic next/previous page controls). Those two buttons work as expected, but their presence causes something strange when exporting the document.
What happens is that the exported PDF document is considered as a form when those buttons are present.
I'd like to keep those controls, but without having Acrobat Reader reminding me that I'm browsing through a form that I won't be able to save (bla bla bla). Which means that I just would like the file to behave as a standard document instead of a form document.
If any of you ever experienced that issue, I'd like to know how you solved it.
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the answer, but I found out the cause of the issue.
What happens is quite weird.
Using inDesign, once your file exceeds 100 buttons it exports itself as a PDF form instead of a standard PDF document. No straight solution seems to exist, but I found a way to bypass this problem.
Instead of creating my controls in the master page, I created them (only once) in the first page they appear in. Then, in Acrobat Pro, I just selected them and used the "duplicate" command.
There are two benefits when using this solution:
your PDF document won't turn into a form (which can be a real problem if you don't want to confuse the document users)
your PDF file will be lighter. Indeed, when creating a button in inDesign (even if you create it on the master page) the exported PDF document won't contain X occurences of the same button, but X different buttons (which can incread the size of your document dramaticaly when it reaches a large amount of pages).
It took me hours to find out a solution to this problem, I hope it will help someone else than me.

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