Adding attachments to Reader enabled forms in Adobe reader

I am creating a form for a user where they need to add an attachment to the form from Adobe Reader.
They also need to save the form locally, as this is a low volume usage, approx. 100 uses in total the rights are being enabled in Acrobat Professional 8.0
Functionality all works fine until the form is reader enabled and the script no longer functions.
the script being used is as follows
var oDoc = event.target;
oDoc.importDataObject("Strategic Research Plan");
var d = oDoc.getDataObject("Strategic Research Plan");
app.alert("The name of the file you attached is: " + d.path);
I have seen some comments indicating the file system cannot be accessed when rights have been applied, does anyone know if this is the case? or if there is a way to make this work.
this is being done with Professional 8 and Reader 7.02 or later
Any comments will be appreciated!

Hi Pat,
Yes I was using Firefox 19 indeed. This certainly fixed it.
Thanks for the help!

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