Text disappeared after Acrobat preflight

Hi all,
A few days ago I preflighted a PDF using the 'Convert to PDF/X-1a (Coated FOGRA39)' preflight profile in Acrobat X. After preflighting and optimization several pieces of text suddenly disappeared. I'm a bit puzzled here. Customers of me are using this preflight profile to optimize quite some PDF's in their workflow for print production. Has anyone experienced similar kind of problems with this profile (or another in Acrobat preflight)?
I ran my tests on Windows 7, Acrobat 10.0.1.
PDF A, before preflighting
PDF A, after preflighting
PDF B, before preflighting
PDF B, after preflighting
All help is welcome.

If you have the file in the "pre-converted" state, could you do the following test?
1. open the file in Acrobat
2. open the transparency flattener (located in the Print Production tools)
3. do APPLY for flattening the file (do this, even if there is no transparency in the file at all)
4. then do 'OK' to return to the Viewer
Is the text still visible or has it been hidden as in your example above?
There are a couple of other things we can try, but this is a good starting point.

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