Digital Signature error - "Document could not be signed"

I have a servlet (from the documentation sample) the rendered my form online. My form was saved from Designer as Acrobat 7.0.5 Static PDF Form File and then I applied Reader Extensions to it to allow for Digital Signatures and Basic Form Fill In. When I try to digitall sign the form, I get the error:
"The document could not be signed."
"There was an error when attempting to commit this signature. The document was not saved."
"A file error has occurred."
Anyone know what this means and how do I fix it??
I am using Acrobat Reader 7.0.8, so maybe that is the problem, but I won't know what version Reader my user's will have, so it needs to work in many versions.
If I don't sign the form, I can submit it where a second servlet saves the form to a file and this happens successfully.
Thank you,
Jennifer

Hello Rob,
Thanks for the reply.
Actually, there is a bug with Reader and Form Rendered forms - at least with already extended pdf forms that get rendered via Form Server.
So, I hope this makes sense, but this is what I have determined (this is all done with viewing the EXTENDED PDF form WITHIN a WEB BROWSER):
If I use a simple hyperlink (i.e. plain html anchor tag) to my PDF form, I can digitally sign the form with no problem within in all 7.x versions of Reader.
If I utilize Form Server code (tested with local EJBClient and then remote JBoss using SOAPClient) then the results vary:
Reader 7.0.0 - I could successfully sign the form
Reader 7.0.5 - I could successfully sign the form
Reader 7.0.7 - I could NOT sign the form
Reader 7.0.8 - I could NOT sign the form
Reader 8.0.0 - I could successfully sign the form
So, you can see in version 7.0.7 and 7.0.8, one cannot digitally sign a form if it was rendered via Form Server and viewing the form in the web browser, but I can sign it just fine if I display the form via a simple html hyperlink, so that is what I am doing now.
I had this same issue when using Workflow server, but that was easy enough to apply the Reader Extension QPAC over and over as needed. I need these forms to be submitted on a remote server and haven't figured out yet how to apply the Reader Extension remotely yet.
I hope this helps.
Jennifer

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