Acrobat 7 editable form

I'm trying to get the size of a pdf down, the person that needs to use it says they have acrobat 7.0.8 for the PC.
I have produced the form in acrobat 9 pro on the mac adding editable boxes.
I used PDF optimiser to downsample the images and unembeded arial and verdana and made it compatible with acrobat 5.0 and later (when I tried version 7 and under and 6 and under they had error messges) then went to 'extend features in adobe reader so it could be edited and saved.
The file made was 430mb but I need it smaller, can anyone help?

They have acrobat but its only reader 7. They can't upgrade at this moment in time.
The form works fine here on a test pc with acrobat 7.
But they had an error saying 'There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.' when I saved it for version 7 and above (this happened twice so it can't be the file corrupting).
But when I saved it as version 5 they could read it, fill the form in and save it but the file size was getting too big.
I noticed the further back the version you saved, the larger the pdf was.
Is there another way of making it smaller?

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