Why does PDF substitute characters when placed in Illustrator CS4?

When trying to place a PDF (x1a) Table into my illustrator file, it substitutes different characters. My hyphens and Quotation marks become latin and cyrillic substitutes. Even when I've outlined all fonts within the table before exporting to PDF x1a. When I open the PDF in Acrobat Pro or Photoshop it shows correctly. Only Illustrator shows it incorrectly. When I direct select the elements within the PDF in illustrator, it selects the outlines of the incorrect character. ???
My solution was to export from Indesign as an eps and it places just fine. I originally wanted to copy and paste the table (either outlined or not) from Indesign into Illustrator, as I'm sure usually totally works, but time and time again it wouldnt work. That was why I was going the place PDF route.
If anyone has come across this before, I'd love to know how/why this is happening, and how to fix... Thanks in advance.

MMM, good ideas thank you!
When I open in Acrobat its fine. When I open as PDF in Illustrator its
corrupt.
When I place in a new ai file, as a link, its fine. When I place in new
file, embedded, its corrupt.
However, when I open as a PDF in Illustrator or place it as an embedded PDF
into Illustrator, it includes all the layers, I can select the separate
corrupt layers and delete them. So it turns out I can get rid of them with
this process.
It seems perhaps its an indesign thing, and a Indesign Tables thing. When I
outline the Table and its contents, it creates another layer of outlined
text on top of the live text. If I try and delete the non-outlined text, it
deletes the Table lines?? So if I leave it as is, I believe its the live
text underneath that is substituting for some reason?

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