Flatten Fields for Acrobat Reader Users

I've created a 6 page form in Acrobat Pro 9 with a bunch of fields.
I need to send this form to my client who only has Acrobat reader. They need to fill in the form then they need to flatten all fields in order to send it out - basically, the form ends up being a read-only document.
If if the acrobat reader user sends the form back to me, I can't do a save as / Adobe PDF optimized/ flatten. It says I don't have "sufficient permissions to perform this task".
Please help!

Thanks for the response. I figured that was the only solution. There are at least 80 forms that will need be done this way, so I was wondering if there was a much simplier solution.
Do you know if there is a "batch" feature I could do? I tried File / Export / Export Multiple Files, but that doesn't work.
thanks!

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