Preserving Illustrator Elements in Multipage Document

Hi all,
My employer just recently upgraded our Design Team to CS5. Previously, we had been making individual Illustrator documents and combining them in Acrobat. When we do that now, and reopen in Illustrator to edit the document, the elements break themselves up, put themselves into clipping masks and groups, and type is broken into multiple sections instead of an individual text box. We'd like to be able to preserve the editing capabilities when we make multipage PDF documents from our Illustrator files, but I've not been able to locate how to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I think your best plan if you are going to continue this workflow (opening PDFs in Illustrator Land) is to just save your Illustrator files as native .ai files but turn on "Create PDF Compatible File" in your Save options.
Then you can open your .ai files in Acrobat to combine them but it would probably best best to do a "Save As" after this with a new file name so that you still have your original "un-acrobatted" illustrator file.
Be very careful of combining Acrobat pages from different PDFs where the users used different resources for their fonts, such as a PDF generated from a Mac using Type 1 fonts and a PDF from a Windows machine using Truetype fonts. Even if they are, per say, the same font, such as Helvetica, this could cause many problems down the line. Even if both source PDFs are from Mac machines, make sure they are both using the same font libraries.

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