From everything I have read, there really is no way to do it.  Check out this thread:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/1957639It sounds to me like this a business decision Adobe has made to try to strong arm people into buying a more expensive product than they need, based on the popularity of a sin...

Thank you, that is exactly what I wanted to know.

ok, so do you get an api with LiveCycle that is different than the one you get with Adobe Pro?  Can I automate that procedure by referencing the api in a .Net project?

Thank you for the link.  At this point, I can't even figure out how to install the trial,  JBOSS?  Websphere?  Huh?  I am just on Windows XP here, trying to evaluate what direction to take this project.  Is there any very simple summary of how you would enable a batch of pdfs for commenting, IF you ...

I have seen a million forum posts where people want to programmatically enable their pdfs for commenting, and the answer is: use LiveCycle.  We are considering buying LiveCycle for our server JUST for this purpose, since there doesn't seem to be any other way to do it.  Before we do, I want to know ...