Fields in returned PDF form are blank unless clicked.

I see several references to this issue, which have lead me here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html
and here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2009/11/script_to_fix_mac_osx_previewa.html
These sites offer a script that needs to be installed, but the question I have is installed where? On the computer that makes the forms? On the computer(s) (different from the origin) that receive the forms? 
Also, maybe I am unobservant, but I cannot find a way to add to a discussed/answered question, hence I am asking this again, even though I have seen other responses.
Thanks,

The script is intended to go on the computer(s) that receive the forms. But if the person who receives the forms has Acrobat and the original blank form, it is better to export the form data from the damaged form and import it into the blank form, for a number of reasons.

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