Form distribution problem

I have created a pdf fillable form, and would like to distribute it where the user would fill it out, then print it and send it to my office with other materials in a packet.  I do not want the responses to come to me or any other specific person or server or to collect them in any fashion; I do not want the header on the form to say either "Please fill out the following form. When finished, click Submit form to return the completed form." or "Please fill out the following form. If you are a form author, choose Distribute from the Forms panel in the Tools Pane on the right to send it to your recipients".  It should just say "Please fill out the following form."  How do I just have a form without the response mechanisms?

It will only say "Please fill out the following form. When finished, click Submit form to return the completed form." if you put it through the Distribute Form process in Acrobat. So just don't do that. If you need to allow Reader users (prior to 11) to save the filled-in form, just Reader-enable it. If you need help with this, what version of Acrobat are you using?
It will only say "Please fill out the following form. If you are a form author, choose Distribute from the Forms panel in the Tools Pane on the right to send it to your recipients" if it is opened with Acrobat, but not all versions (Acrobat 9 Yes, Acrobat 11 No), and that will only be possible to do if there are no security restrictions.

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    http://www.adobe.com/support/acrobat/
    Here is a link to the moderated Acrobat Users forums:
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