Acrobat, Preview and forms that won't fill properly

Firstly, I apologize if this is in the wrong place.... I can't find anywhere suitable.
I have been sent some PDF forms to fill in, and I did so in Preview. All looks OK, except two of the fields can't be typed in.
I filled them in and also 'printed' a PDF and sent them off to the user. They are on a PC and have said that the forms I saved have all the fields showing as blank, and the printed forms can't be edited, but my input can be seen.
I tried to use Adobe Reader, but it won't allow any changes.
I tried to buy Adobe Acrobat for the Mac, but Adobe say it's only available in CS4 which I can't afford!
Does anyone have any idea what I can do? I'm going to have to do quite a bit of this form filling, and have no way to do it so that a PC user can access them.

This is a known problem with Preview and Acrobat, and the problem is on the Preview end. There is a script that can be run from within Acrobat, which will make the fields reappear. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do within Preview.
Here's the URL for the script:
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/scriptto_fix_mac_osxpreviewa.html

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