PDF Layers lost while importing to Illustrator

We are using Adobe PDF Library to create PDF documents.
The layers created are visible from Acrobat Viewer.
However the original layers in PDF are not maintained while importing the PDF in Illustrator (CS2 and CS3). Is this not supported? If not any chance this will be supported in future versions of Illustrator?

Sorry, bad choice of words there from my side.
I have a Tab interactivity in SWF fomat. The framework of this is created in Flash in which we are calling the content from XML file. Here is the screenshot of the SWF when the XML file is missing:
Now, when I place the XML file in the required folder, it looks like this:
In your case, you place the Captivate file which is not dependent on other files. That is why you get it right. It is something like inserting an image.
Sreekanth

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