XML data from Form?!?!

I've used LD8.0 to create a feedback form for my customers (it's at http://www.raven-multimedia.com/Feedback.pdf for reference). The first time I created it it was fairly large (1.4MB) and when a user clicked the submit-by-email button the data file attached to the message was a very small XML file {which I had no problem importing into my form to get the results}.
In fiddling with the form to try to make the file online smaller I've done SOMETHING which has resulted in a smaller form (now about 590kb), but when submitted by email the
entire form
is attached in PDF format!
How do I (or is there any way to...) keep the form itself SMALL and make sure that the data file sent to me is XML (thus small) too?!?!
I'm also interested in making the form as compatible as possible, which means an earlier version of Acrobat, but again run up against the problem that earlier version seems to mean larger file size.
Any and all help will be appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Jim 8^O
PS- Oh, hey, can anyone tell me why I can't import Text data to my form?!?!

He that can have patience can have what he will.
The size of the image you embedded is overkill!
Try resizing the original image to about 100*120 px (not sure about the exact size). Remove the original image, embed the resized one. This way you may save another 400 KBytes. In the image's 'draw'-tab select 'use original size'.
Also, do not save the image as jpg but gif. You don't need to use jpg as the image does not feature lots of different colors. That one may save you another... 30 KBytes at least.
You want to send XML data? Follow these steps
Sending complete PDF on eMail-submit but instead of 'PDF', select 'XML' in the options.

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