Reader Extensions / Usage Rights

I followed the procedure in this paper from Paul Guerette to set Usage Rights to my forms, but at run time, it pops up a message:
"This document contained certain rights to enable special features in Adobe Reader. The document had been changed since it was created and these rights are no longer valid. Please contact the author for the original version of this document."
On the top of the window, below the Reader toolbar, it says "you cannot save the data typed into the form". There's no "commenting" icon in the toolbar, no digital signature icon either. Looks as if it's not Reader Extended.
How do I fix this?
my ES version is GM, no Service Pack not patches applied.

My RE was the last step as well, it was after the "Workspace enable form" step.
I have run another test. I removed the RE step, and it's working the same way as before; everything worked on a desktop that has the Acrobat Pro.
I then launched the form/process in Workspace on a desktop that only has Reader-8, the form got rendered in the browser, and I saved the PDF (a blank copy, no data).
Then I ran this PDF through the RE browser interface, and it was successfully Extended. When I opened the extended PDF, there's a Digital Signature icon, the "message" (which was entered when applying the rights) was behind the "i" button; but there was no commenting icon (unlike some other non-form PDF files, those files got an extra commenting icon). There was no pop-up warning.
Some other "form" type of PDFs also didn't get the Commenting icon after extended through the browser interface. I thought we could put some yellow stickers onto forms before? ES/Reader-8 doesn't allow you to do that anymore?
I have run another test, this time I removed all the scripts behind the Form:ready event, there's no other script. But it didn't help, I still got the popup warning. So, what could have caused it to think that the form got modified after the ApplyUsageRights ??? Why the Rights don't stick?

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