Personally, I've owned or had access to Adobe's Creative Suite, so I wasn't all that familiar with the precise terms used by Acrobat Reader. I'm sorry if my post wasn't clear.
When I've had any light- to heavy-lifting to do with PDF manipulation, I've tended to just open Illustrator and go from there.
I'm pleased Reader X allows such simple cut-and-paste of images; I tried using Acrobat Pro 9 and it was a bit more convoluted to select images when compared to Acrobat Reader X.
I'm happy you're happy, but then my handle is ...
-- Happytime