Acrobat-9/ColdFusion web form is intermittently(!) un-fillable

I have converted a straightforward Microsoft Word document to a PDF form using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (evaluation copy), then created Cold Fusion code which (using <cfpdfform> tag) is populated from a database and presented on the user's web-page for input ... which is subsequently submitted to the web-server and used to update the database. All very clean and straightforward. Reader extened-features were duly enabled when the form was saved. The entire process was quick and easy, but, there is a wee problem.
On my system, running Acrobat-9 Pro, the process always works.
But on systems running (note: we all have just the current version of) Acrobat Reader, the following problem happens intermittently:
"This document enabled extended features in Adobe Reader. The document has been changed since it was created and use of extended features is no longer available. Please contact he author of the original version of this document."
When it happens, this message pops up and the form is non-editable.
Hit the reload key (or do anything else) and ... after a few attempts ... suddenly the form can be edited. Furthermore, computers running identical versions of Acrobat Reader exhibit this problem more, or less, frequently. So it looks to me to be some kind of a timing issue.
The problem does not appear to be related to the data that's being displayed: all of us who are exploring this problem are always retrieving exactly the same record. But we're not "pounding the server" by any means. It isn't a conflict problem or anything like that.
I have tried various things. For instance, just to make sure that nothing's getting 'modified,' I set the security-permissions on the file to guarantee that ... no, indeed, nothing's changing.
To my great good-fortune, this morning's bigwig demo went quite well: the problem never appeared even once "on the one computer that counted most," at least not during the demo. (When I tiptoed over to it "just to check," the problem did appear, once.)
Any ideas?

I am having the exact same issue. Were you able to find a resolution?

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susanring wrote:
> hello,
> my level is beginner but i am given a project . well
task
> to create a online application system to reduce paper
work.
>
> i have seen some online application ( using pdf) on the
web and it seems
> better (looks better than a web form i ussually fill out
on the web.
>
> i would like to start on a project that does this PDF
forms for online.
>
> how do i start this.
>
> i have seen one that you can start inputing on the web
but does not input
> (store in DB)
> i wish to do this where i can store in a db
>
> how do i get started on my online application using PDF.
>
>

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