Created a PDF form on a PC, need save as button to work on Mac

I have created a lovely fillable PDF form for my boss as a client would like to be able to have a rather large interactive PDF document, and the deciding factor on if we get this work is whether i can get this to work so i'm hoping you lovely people will be able to help me out on this as i haven't been able to find ANY documentation on this thus far. I have created a 1 page PDF as a test subject, which has a few text boxes, some check boxes, radio buttons, a list box and a combo box which all work great. I have also added a "Save As" button to my document (so I have set the buttons actions to Execute a menu item > File > Save As...) which works just fine on my PC. But when this button is pressed on a Mac, nothing happens. (Also my PDF form didn't look quite right on the mac, some of the formatting was off, text boxes and combo boxes were a bit squashed, but i think this is a seperate issue altogether which im sure i can figure out by myself) Now i think i know why this is happening, i believe it's because the button is set to go to "File > Save As" and im guessing the command to save on a Mac is different? or points to a different file location? (I'm not very clued up about Mac's...)
So my question is this, is there any way to have a Save As button in my PDF document that will allow both PC and Mac users to save the fillable PDF form? (Oh by the way I have made sure that once i created my form I extended the features for reader to make sure that the form was savable once filled in.)
Also, i know this is a completely seperate question, but if anyone had any answers on this it would be GREAT, When creating a text field in the form and coming out of form editing, the text field is shown as a horrible pale blue colour, which i know is there so that the user can tell that there is a form field there, but this pale blue really does NOT go with the aesthetic of the document. After digging around for a bit, i found out that the pale blue is a highlight colour which can be set in your preferences in reader or acrobat. Is there anyway that i could change this highlight colour for the document so that whomever opens the document on their PC / Mac doesn't have to see that horrible pale blue? Without them manually having to change their preferences in reader?
Thanks in advance for all of your help,
Danny.

Double-check that the file is opened in Adobe Reader on the Mac and not in
Preview, which is known to have various problems with it comes to forms.
Regarding the highlight color: You can't either change it, or disable it
completely.
app.runtimeHighlight is a boolean that determines whether the form fields
are highlighted, and app.runtimeHighlightColor is a color object that
determines which color is used. Notice that these are system-wide
preferences, so if you change them it will affect other documents as well.

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