'The font 'Arial-BoldMT' contains bad /Widths' message

I have created a rather extensive form using Acrobat 5.0.
After creating the form, I was reading online about the new feature in Acrobat 9 that offers the ability to allow Adobe Reader users to save a copy of a filled-in form. This was very appealing to me, so I acquired Acrobat 9 and proceeded to utilize this feature.
Before applying the new feature, I simply made a copy of the form by using 'Save as'. After the save completed, and anytime I re-open the from (either in Acrobat 9 or Reader 9), I am receiving the following message in the form of an information window (indicated by a speech bubble with an 'i' in it):
'The font 'Arial-BoldMT' contains bad /Widths.'
This message also persists after saving the file with the aforementioned new feature applied.
Can anyone provide me with any insight regarding this message, and, more importantly, how to resolve it?
Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Todd Williams

If you have the original document that the form was built on, try to print it to a new PDF. Then use the replace pages to put it in place of the current pages without deleting the form fields. I have no idea where the font error would have come from, but this might work. Be sure to play with copies and not your originals.
If all else fails, you could even just print the current PDF form to a new PDF with the document only selected. Then use that result to replace pages.

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