Preview - No Table of Contents

I have an ebook in pdf form, that displays the Table of Contents fine using Fox-It Reader and Acrobat Reader (on windows box at work), but when I view using Preview it just displays the Title of the book.
Anyone have any information on this or a resolution? I've searched around for similar posts here and elsewhere on the internet, but I could not find any answers. A similar post listed a similar issue back in 2009 (here), but basically the response was Preview changed since 10.5, don't use it.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

I tried again at home and got it to work on my iMac temporarily, but I closed the file and re-opened it and now it will not work anymore. For a second, I thought it had something to do with the fact that the pdf is in a Dropbox folder, but the fact that I got it to just work I no longer think that is the case.
The only other thing I noticed is that there are a total of 5 pdfs in Dropbox. Three of them are password protected and all of them are not showing the TOC in preview, but show them fine in Adobe Reader (Mac), the other two are not password protected and work fine in both Preview and Adobe Reader.
Thanks for the help,
Mike
PS - The 3 protected pdfs are ebooks purchased from Apress, so it is possible that it is something in the file that Preview just can't read.
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