Separating form fields

I'm new to creating forms. I got a PDF doc from someone that I decided to turn into a form so I could fill it out more easily. It has a lot of checkboxes on it so rather than placing them painstakingly one by one I did a lot of copy/paste. It was much faster because there are sevearl columns of checkboxes. When I went back to the form to fill it in and checked one of the boxes, the all checked at once. That was a huge surprise. I understand why that happened (dumb feature if you ask me) but how do I separate them without deleting them and putting them back one by one. I'm also wondering why the form wizard ignored them. It added fields for all the rest of the form. I should make sure that I'm clear. I know I can select each checkbox and rename them one by one so that they are separate but that's harder than putting them back one at a time. I'm looking for some sort of global button that I can click after selecting them all so that they are no longer named the same or connected. I'm using Acrobat 9 pro fully updated.

Bill,
Thanks for your answer but I'm guessing you didn't read my entire post. Created form fields in Acrobat 9 Pro from a PDF doc (that wasn't a form previously) from a client of mine. And I know how to rename things in properties (which I also mentioned). And actually already did that. Was wondering about some automated or global feature that would let me do that in bulk. I got a private answer from someone else telling me it's not possible.
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