Adding attachments to an Acrobat Form

Dear All, I hope you can help. 
I have created an Acrobat form on a Mac using Acrobat XI ver 11.0.03.  Once I distribute the form I need the user to add an attachment (.pdf .xls etc) and then email it back.
I thought Form Central would be a perfect solution, however having paid my subscription, I couldn't find the function anywhere. I then searched the forums only to find that Form Central can't deal with attachments.  Back to the drawing board!
Now being forced to distribute the form manually (by email), I still need to allow users to add the documents above.  I am aware of the add attachment in the left menu item, but ideally I would like users to simply click on a button that opens a finder window to allow them to add attachments.
I would really appreciate your help on this.
Many thanks,
J.

The type of thing you want is possible, but if it needs to work with Reader the document must be enabled by LiveCycle Reader Extensions so it includes the embedded file usage right.
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