Digitally Verified Signature Fields After Saving

I am using Acrobat 9. I am creating a PDF with a whole slew of editable fields. Once the PDF is done I need to be able to email it to several people who need to be able to fill it out and save it (so that they can upload it to a website for me). I have figured this part of it out thanks to someone else asking the same question. HOWEVER... when I save it as "Extend Form Fill-In and Save In Adobe Reader" and email it to my co-worker she is able to open the doc and edit the fields and save it... all except for the Verified Signature Fields, which are VERY important to this particular doc as it is a contract.
Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas? I'm in a pickle and needing to get this doc done very soon. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply. I remember getting a prompt to add the password after certain actions so that is why I thought it could be the same with the printing if the option had not been disabled.
From my point of view, I set security options for others not to be able to modify/do certain actions on my doc, but I would expect I would continue being able to do so...this way securing a document is also limiting myself as the author of the document.
Of course the inconvenience prior to signing turns into impossibility when digitally signed as you say...
I can cope with an inconvenience as I understand the way it has been thought (similar to when you protect an excel sheet or anything similar) but I also think it would be useful to find an alternative solution seeing the constraints added when the doc is signed. Printing out a document does not modify the original document...so it should be allowed (of course, in order to ascertain its validity, the printed copy would need to be checked against the digitally signed one (similar to what we need to do if we copy a document in paper...it needs to be checked against the original or even get attested).
Thanks again!

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