Exporting editable text PDF

I've seen this question posed but never saw a fit answer. I'm designing a document (price tags) for a client that needs to be client editable. For the full story, see below.
I've done the layout for the price tags in InDesign CS3 and am wanting to export a PDF that has pre-formatted text that can be edited by the client. I want the client to be able to enter in new information while maintaining the original design so as to be able to print endless new price tags on demand (and without my further involvement). I've tested several exports in Acrobat Pro and while I can highlight and copy the text, I cannot edit. I'm using the Acrobat presets export menu (press quality) in ID and have been unable to figure out how to set editable text.
I'm REALLY wanting to avoid using Word for this.

The controls for type size/style/color are unintuitive (IMO) in acrobat forms, but they are in there.
Open the PDF in Acrobat Professional (my example uses 7, so newer may be slightly different).
Select
Tools > Advanced Editing > Text Field Tool and draw a field on the PDF page. This SHOULD open the Text Field Properties dialog.
Under Appearance tab you can set the following:
(text field) Border, (text field) Fill, Font, Font Size, color.
Under Options tab, you can set horizontal alignment, character limit, single or multi-line, scrolling, rich text formats, etc.
Under format you can set what kind of data is in the field, such as numbers only, percentage, etc.
Under Calculate you can set whether the field is calculated using the values of other fields, etc.
So, you can set up one field and duplicate is as needed.
HTH
-mt

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> I'm trying to print flyers (to PDF) that i've designed
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