Form field background color printing - acrobat pro 8, Windows

My committee is tasked with making about 150 PDF forms writable and savable each year for a national organization. Over 3,000 people use these forms for reporting purposes, and also people who are entering contests, such as students, submit these forms. This is the first year my committee has made the forms savable, as it is a new feature in v8.
PROCESS: The PDF forms we receive are generated in Quark and sent to us. We cannot use Live Cycle to make the forms writable, as it generates files sizes that are too big for some of our users to download. We draw form fields and set up calculations, etc. on the forms we receive. Making them savable is the last step in the process.
PROBLEM: Some users have reported having the form fields print in blue or green. Usually upgrading to Reader 8+ solves this problem. Unfortunately, some users are sending in forms that are almost unreadable because the form fields have a colored background--(they didn't contact us). It's hard to determine how widespread this problem really is.
I spoke with Adobe technical support and learned that this isn't a "known" issue. He suggested that setting the background to "white" in Quark before the PDF is generated might help.
Does anyone have a solution that will keep these forms from printing colors in field backgrounds in earlier versions of Reader? Or any way to set the background color when NOT using Live Cycle?
Thanks for any help!

Olaf, I tried to send you an email at the above address, and got the following message:
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