Acrobat Certification and Appian

Hi Everyone,
Here's my situation. We have two developers using Acrobat 8.x to create forms for users of Adobe Reader 8.x through a BPM solution named Appian.
We've created and certified the forms within Acrobat and they appear fine on computers with Acrobat Reader. After uploading the document to Appian and have a workflow user access the document, they receive the message: (Screen shot attached)
Unexpected byte range values defining scope of signed data.
Details: The signature byte range is invalid
I've seen the error message "Details: The signature byte range is invalid" in other forums but those solutions were not applicable to this situation.
Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Ameet

Everything does work correctly. I even emailed the document to myself and to other co-workers, uploaded and downloaded the document to a SharePoint server without experiencing the problem. I'm hoping by posting to this forum someone else may have tried this and experienced the same problem (even if it's not with the exact same application) and would be willing to share a solution.
I've contacted Appian and I'm trying to be proactive in case I get caught in the "It's not our fault, call them" tennis match that happens when trying to use two products from two different vendors. Any ideas or suggestiosn would be greatly appreciated!

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