Acrobat Form - Plus sign

I am creating a form. When the value is negative ( I want a minus sign in front of the value, this of course works fine) But when I put a positive value, the positive value goes away, how do I make the positive value have a "plus sign" in front of it.
This is the main thing I am trying to accomplish.
Other things I would like (but these are things I could live without)
1)I would like the values to have two decimal places.
2)I would like the decimal places to be one of .00,0.25,0.50,0.75 (ie 5.75)
3)Default value if no sign is put in would be preferred to be negative is possible.
Thanks,
Sandy

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