Saving a PDF in Acrobat 9 with comments enabled for viewer

Hi,
Is there a quicker way to enable comments for Reader than actually having to choose to do so? I have maybe 30-40 files saved as a PDF but they do not have comments enabled so I have to open each one and click on enable comments for Reader. That takes a lot of time and sometime you can make a mistake.
Any work around? A macro?
Thanks!
Luke

Ha ha ha.
I saw that and, of course, my company would never get into this but I wanted to thank you for your response.

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