Reduce File Size --- one symbol gone

For a couple of years, I have routinely done "reduce file size" (compatible with version 6) on a large document that I maintain and share. The original document, made from pdfLaTeX, via Scientific Word, is about 11 Meg. It used to reduce to about 3 Meg, no problem.
Recently changing to a new computer and newer version of Acrobat, 9, has broken this process, changing every minus sign in the document into a box. Otherwise it looks fine.
This has been driving me crazy all day, messing around upgrading from Standard to Pro and trying different options. As far as I can tell, the original document has embedded fonts, as does the shrunken one.
I'll attach the reduced file with the missing minus signs. Look at the 16th page, for example, equations 2.2 and 2.3 should have leading minus signs on the right sides.
Thank you,

To make the process easier, could you extract the single page in the original and in the RFS version, posting them both. I was not able to view the properties of the "-" sign, but I was able to view it by copying it to the clipboard. The result of the copy is shown in the GIF file below (I hope). It is actually not a true minus sign.
Just for your info, I am looking at AA7 with the AA7 view as
So the minus sign is there, just not displaying correctly. The fonts show to all be embedded (LaTeX fonts). However, it looks like some of this is being reported incorrectly. I selected the text touchup tool, selected the "box", and viewed the properties. It was a cmsy10 font that was checked as embedded subset, but to the left it said "Permissions: Cannot embed font." The font list shows two sets of these fonts.
The other fonts in the equation displayed fine, but the permissions message again came up. I am not sure why there are 2 fonts listed with the same name (several more also) and the apparent conflict in the embed check and the Permissions. Anyway, I think this is directly related to the issue at hand and is the place to be looking for a solution. Again, posting part of the original would be very helpful.

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(German version below)
Hey,
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geekinthegarden wrote:
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