Updating form field Acrobat 9.0

I'm programming in Visual Basic and I'm able to read a form field but I when I try to update it's value, nothing happens. This code works fine in Acrobat 7.0.
set f =jso.getobject("fieldname")
f.value = "New Value"
The field updates fine in Acrobat 7.0, but does nothing in Acrobat 9.0. Acrobat 7.0 has been uninstalled on the machine and only Acrobat 9.0 is installed. I can read the existing field values, but the code line doesn't work in 9.0. What am I doing wrong?

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3128922#3128922
I don't see any documentation like that except in Life Cycle and I need to change the fields programmatically in VB. I ran across this discussion you had with another poster that is basically the same question I had. Can you give me a link or something?

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