FormsCentral or Acrobat Pro?

Hi there, I'm designing a pdf with several pages AND a form that must be able to be send back and forth a few times.
Now I have to determine which is the best way to go: FormsCentral or Acrobat Pro
The idea is that the form is filled in in several steps. The process looks like this:
a. reciepient fills in parts of the form, sends it back to office (using Reader).
b. office stamps off with a hidden layer the parts that are filled in and sends it back to recipient.
c. reciepient fills in other parts of the form, sends it back to office (using Reader).
d. office stamps off with a hidden layer other parts that are now filled in and sends it back to recipient.
e. repeat steps a-b until the form is completed.
Now here are my questions:
Can this best be done with FormsCentral or Acrobat Pro?
If the best solution is Acrobat how can I make the form mail itself back to office to avoid clutter of mutiple versions?
Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Thanks George. First I have to go over hooking up rollover buttons made in Indesgn and have them act as submit button.
I'm doing my first testing to get a feel of it. I've emailed the test pdf (distribute) using Acrobat, filled it in and send it back. I've made an editorial file
for collecting the test forms and I was able to edit the incomming file.
Now here is my next obstacle: how do I send the edited/revised pdf back to the recipient? it would be wonderful if this is possible through the editorial file.
That would rule out double copies or versioning. Or am I now too optimistic? Thanks again!

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