Creating Forms in Acrobat Pro

I have created a form in Acrobat Pro. I want to be able to email it out to my clients, have them fill it out, save it and email it back to me.
I've got the form created. I looks great and works well if you've got ACrobat Pro. But all my clients just have reader.
They can't fill out the form and email it back. I get a lot of errors saying that their version of Acrobat can only save a blank copy.
What can I do to fix this? I really need them to be able to fill out this form and email it back to me.
Thanks.
-DRW

Really. Have to say that's kind of irritating.
Not really sure what Adobe is trying to accomplish with that. I have Acrobat Pro, all my clients have Reader... what's the big deal? Why 500? why not 600 or 510?
There are too many rules to keep up with... I'm moving to Canada. They are less strict up there... lol.
Thanks for the heads up. It'll be years before I reach the 500 uses. Maybe by then Adobe won't care.
-Drw

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