Acrobat 9 Pro Ext Forms

I am using Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Adobe Live Cycle Designer) to Create a Feedback Form for use in a Web Site. When completed I saved this Form as Static PDF. I then sent the PDF Form as an email attachment to a friend for testing, with instructions to fill in the Form and then press the Email Submit Button to send it back to me as a completed Form.
When I opened the email, the message had _data.xml added to the original filename. When I opened this message, I was surprised to see, not the Form as I had designed it with the Field Inputs, but instead it was like a html text version of his Input, with all the Text Field Numbers and Button Numbers shown.
Is this Normal Behaviour and if it is, what do I have to do in the Design area, to make it come back as the Form I designed.
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When you use an email submit button in LiveCycle Designer, it is set up to attach the XML form data to an email message. In order to submit the entire PDF, you have to use a standard button, set the "Control Type" to "Submit" (via the Object palette), and then on the Submit tab, select "PDF" for the "Submit As" type.
In order for it to work with Reader, the form needs to be Reader-enabled. To do this, open the form in Acrobat and select: Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader

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