Unintended Form Field(s) Somewhere in Document

I'm working on an interactive PDF in InDesign CS6, and somehow, I'm now getting "Please fill out the following form toolbars in Acrobat". There are no forms to my knowledge on the pages, only buttons. But I know InDesign has some kind of relationship between Button and Form objects. Any idea what is going on?

http://www.burntscarlet.com/_test/help_forums/indesign-cs6_form_bug.zip
This file is based on an actual presentation of 38 pages. The test file contains both navigation living on Master-B (and has its own layer), and a layer of navigation that is present on each and every page, up to page 34.
Adding navigation to the remaining pages will produce the Form toolbar in Acrobat. Using only the Master-B navigation layer (and turning off the other one) will always produce the Form toolbar in Acrobat after something like 6 pages have been created (it can vary).
Obviously, it doesn't make much sense to have tons of copies of the navigation - it should reside on one of the masters, and be referenced throughout the pages.
I'd love to get some insight into this incredibly annoying issue. If we can narrow things down further, I could submit a bug report to Adobe.

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