Form with Submit Button

I recently purchased the acrobat professional 8 and tried to create forms that people can fill in and submit it to us. I tried email button but for some reason never get the email for the data. I thought about http button, but it need some scripting skill. I have some knowledge in ASP script but never create any script for form submission before. Can anyone show me some sample of how to create the script or point me to the right direction that I could have the submit button feature?
Also, I seem some forms that can allow reader users to save the data that they type in the form onto their computer, do anyone know how to create a form with this feature?
Thanks

Use a regular button and change it's control type to submit. Under the Submit tab type in "mailto:youremailaddress". You can then either choose the Submit As for XML, which will send you the data that you can then import into the form or choose Submit As for PDF and you'll get the entire document.
Also, open the form in Acrobat, go to Advanced > Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader. This will solve your problem.
*one thing to note, if you ever make changes to your form be sure to do the Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader step again.

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