Tag structure lost while combining multiple PDF files

Hi All,
As per client requirements, we have been using ABBYY Fine reader to create PDFs. After creating multiple PDFs of a huge book (separated logically according to Units consisting diff Chapters), we have tagged them correctly.
We need to know put these tagged PDFs together. However, while combining multiple tagged files, we loss the Tagged structure!!! (using Adobe 8 Professional)
Any idea, why are we losing our tags in the combined file? Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Mamta

Hello Steve (and ALL),
We are combining the files using File --> Combine Files... dialog box. We also tried Document --> Insert Pages. In both the cases, my tag structure of all files just dont appear!
While combining files we get the following:
Tags
--- Document
-----Part (Empty)
-----Part (Empty)
-----Part (Empty)
(The number of "Part" corresponds to the number of files I try to combine)
While Inserting the pages into a file, we only get to see the tag structure of the first file into which we insert the pages.
Are there any other methods to combine the files???
Regards,
Mamta

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