rotating pages

Using your "click path" Acrobat (8, 9) evokes the object editor when I use it (at "Edit Page").
This is the application the user selects and sets Acrobat Preferences.
For example, Illustrator if installed.
The application you designate "owns" the edits, not Acrobat.

However, in Acrobat 8 and 9 I am able to Rotate Selection without evoking an object editor.
Open the Advanced Editing toolbar.
Select the TouchUp Object Tool.
Select/marquee something.
Right click for context menu which gives flip and rotate choices separately from "edit object".
Select "Rotate Selection".
Cursor to outer box corner.
Rotate.

Played with this in both 8 and 9. Could not duplicate what you describe.
Just toss'n the chicken bones here; but, maybe a "repair" to Acrobat could be tried.


Be well

I bypass a menu to do the rotating. It worked for me, but was difficult at first. You have to make sure the cursor changes to a flat line in the right direction, with arrows at the end. You need to hover over the corner of the page until that happens.

Slight increment rotation: Due to the problem with not being able to "re-rotate" a page, I finally gave up and decided to extract the problem page that I had "over-rotated." (My file had hundreds of pages.) I then printed out that one page and manually aligned it on our copier machine glass for scanning. Thus, I had a better aligned scan of the page. I then inserted the new page in the file right after the badly rotated page, and deleted the badly rotated page.

This was a bit complicated but solved the problem.

for tweaking images (in this case, for adjusting and re-adjusting rotation) you might want to use Adobe's photoshop (or photoshop elements). tweak your image and save as PDF; insert the freshly tweaked PDF to your document. keep the PSD so that you can tweak it as often as needed to get the desired result.

Thanks for the answer. I have never done Photoshop, so I can't really comment.