Anyone use acrobat 9 to set form fields that auto center?

I am trying to set form fields for a form and am having trouble. The input needs to go all the way to the left when done but spaced evenly ovver a set area. This is confusing I know/ I have attached (2) samples. # 1 is the way I want to be able to fill the form. And # 2 is the form I am trying to set up. Any help would be amazing.

I think I have a working solution now, but for one problem.
I have my remote page

<center>
<iframe name="appFrame" id="appFrame" width="860" height="600" src="http://serverx/register.asp" onload="setEmail();" >
</iframe></center>
and my Javascript function in the page header
<script type="text/javascript">
function setEmail() {
var emailVal = document.getElementById("P88_EMAIL").value;
alert("Email: "+emailVal);
var iframeElem = parent.document.getElementById("appFrame");
iframeElem.contentDocument.getElementById('eAdr').value = emailVal; // error here
alert("Email set?");
</script>Problem now is that I get a access denied message from the remote server. This is might be to prevent some cross site scripting. Because the ApexServer tries to access methods on the remote server.
Fehler: <http://apexServer> wurde die Erlaubnis für das Lesen der Eigenschaft HTMLDocument.getElementById von <http://serverx> verweigert.
Translated
Error: <http://apexServer> does not have the permission to read the attribute HTMLDocument.getElementById of <http://serverx>.
So I will have to talk with some sysadmins to see if they can add some exceptions to the firewall rules. Not sure which rules excactly prevent this, but there should be a way to circumvent the error.
Or does anyone have a different idea how to solve this?
Edited by: Sven W. on Aug 6, 2010 10:17 AM

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