Fill in LiveCycle forms

Created a form in LiveCycle Designer 8.0.  Saved as PDF.  It opened fine, but after I did a test fill in and sent it to myself, using the e-mail button, the e-mail came back reading:
text1
text2
checkbox
My answers were there, but the questions were not visible making it all useless
My form contains Text fill ins, drop down lists, check boxes.
This is a form that will be used on a continual basis to provide information for our ERP system.
The form is saved (as a PDF) where anyone can open it, (I hope they can open it).  What programs/versions will they need to open the form.
Can they just fill it in and send it back to me as an attachment?  I guess they should save each one as a different file.  Right?
Please help. I have spent days creating several forms and they are all duds.

The questions for LiveCycle should be asked in the LiveCycle forum. However, for this one you would open the form file and then import the data file that you got back by e-mail. The data form was likely a XML file.

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