How do I save a pdf form that can be updated by multiple users

I work for a company that is trying to digitize all of their paper forms. As I am creating these forms, I need to know how one person can open and fill in information, then email the form to another person who can continue to fill out the same form. Any ideas? I already tried enabling usage rights in adobe reader, but we can only have one person fill out some info and once they save it, no one else can make any changes to that specific form.

They are using the original reader. One employee was able to save it where it could still be filled in (I just found out), but another user tried to do save as for the info that was put into the form. So I don't know if she saved it as a pdf and it cleared all the original formatting or not. Any ideas of what happened at that point?
@GiladD: There are no special apps, this is just opening up as a pdf on a PC desktop. The second user opens the file and it's a normal pdf with no more fields to fill in.
@Bill@VT We are trying to get the issues resolved before more employees start filling this out on their iPads.

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on the html-based form http://www.samtaleterapi.com/oversigter/psykoterapi.html there isnt the functionality i want
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