Creating, distributing and receiving responses on a "fillable" PDF form

Question

Hello,
     I apologize if this is addressed somewhere else, but I could not find a complete match to my question.  I am trying to create a form in Acrobat X which can be posted to a website, downloaded by up to 2000 people, filled out and emailed back to me.  I acknowledge there may be a better way to do that via some kind of direct web interface, but I'm not able to do that.  I would like to "collect responses" rather than printing each form and hand-entering the responses (the current method).  People filling out the form will probably have some variation of Reader.  I have tried the "distribute form," then posted it to an internal shared drive to test it, but no one has been able to edit the form except by the Typewriter tool.  (Strangely, I can actually fill out the form myself and collect my responses.)  Can anyone give any advice on what I'm missing?  Thank you very much in advance.
Grant

Answer 1

Thank you both very much for that information.  I was concerned about the number of responses, but I was also told by the Adobe helpdesk that the limit of 500 instances would not be an issue because I'm literally receiving the form via email and collecting data into the response file.  I should have mentioned before that I have extended the features to allow editing by Reader users.
     I am afraid I do not understand how your (George's) suggestion to "just submit the form data."  The form will be on a website, so an applicant will open and probably download the file to their own computer and fill it out (can't save the form data).  Then if they click the Submit Form button, am I correct in thinking it will send the form data (just the data) to whatever email address is associated with the file?  That would be great, if that's how that works.  I don't remember, so maybe the preference of "receive just FDF data" or "receive entire form" is an option when I created or distributed the form.  If that's the case, then once it's filled out and submitted, what do I do to get it into the response file?  Bill, I'm not sure I can get around your question of whether email submission will be a problem.  We will receive on Outlook, people submitting could be on anything.  We may just have to deal with that as it happens.  Hand-entering data for a fraction of the people is an acceptable cost, if the majority could be electronic.
Thanks again for the help, maybe I can get this to work.