Buttons, links, and Interactivity in PDFs - emailing

I work for a local printshop and we regularly send out PDF proofs, exported from InDesign CS3, to customers for approval. I've been tasked, if possible, to make these PDFs interactive in the sense that they can have notes added, changes made, and then resent to us. I do know some of the capability of Acrobat in the sense that some changes can be made and for other things notes can be added to a page to indicate other changes. I think that will probably be the easy part.
The hard part is:
Two buttons: Proof OK & Make Changes.
Each button should be a mailto link that attaches the PDF to the email so that the noted changes can be seen on our end.
I've made the buttons with the mailto link... no problem. Attaching the PDF to the email: problem.
Also, I will need to assume that many people, if not most, getting the proofs will have something other than Acrobat 8 Pro like I have. They will have varying flavors of Acrobat Reader that may or may not be able to edit text and make notes.
And, I know little to no Javascript so this may be completely out of my realm.
Anyone have any advice on what path I should take to accomplish this task?
Thanks,
Mike

No other changes that I can think of but we'd like to make it as stupid-proof as possible... Make changes, hit either the OK or Make Changes button, it attaches itself, fills out the subject line and they just have to send.
After researching a little more I did find someone talking about a Submit button in the Acobat Javascript forum. I used that method and it worked but I can't find anyway to make a Submit button from within InDesign. And since we do this hundreds of times a day it must be "export and email" simple. We don't have the time, or manpower (or brainpower at every workstation) to open the PDF in Acrobat and add the button before emaailing.

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