Acrobat Pro 9.0 date fields

hi, I am having trouble in date fields in a form I developed in Designer (Acrobat Pro 9.0). I have two problems. 1. I have a date field for DOB (Date of Birth). When any dates are clicked or entered with a year of 1929 or earlier, Adobe converts it to 2029 and so on. So I cannot enter in anyone over 80 years old. Not good. How do I fix this? 2. When I get out of my Adobe Pro and check out my form myself I am able to use the cool feature where you click on the white part in between the arrows in a date drop down box and I can easily get to early 1900's years. When I have distributed my form those users don't seem to have that feature. The top of their date drop down box is blue. how do I get theirs to work like mine?
Thanks in advance!

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