Xdp data not populated in PDF form

Dear All,
We currently develop XFA forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 (as part of acrobat professional). recently when clients upgraded to Adobe Reader 9.1 or 9.2, when they open an XDP file, the PDF appears without any data population as if the pdf was opened without the xdp file. when creating the form there is no option of target version however the forms are saved as Acrobat 8 Dynamic Forms. Do you know what could be the problem. The same is hapening with fdf data which when you open, the PDF opens without population as well. Help is appreciated Thanks.

I tried that first (without the save), but the resulting PDF had no form data from the XDP. That's when I added the save.
The merging seems to fail when run from batch, but it works fine when I open and then save the file in Acrobat Pro or Reader.
Is there a command in the batch processing that is necessary to move the data from the XDP to the resulting PDF? Will the proper Save command do the trick? [I left work early due to our snow so I can't try this myself.]
--Peter

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