How to create a form that requires thousands of checkboxes?

Hello forum members,
I have Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. I've been searching the internet/forums for the past few hours and I can't seem to find any information on how to create a form with many checkboxes. I do not want to have to give individual names to thousands of checkboxes. I'm hoping there's an easy solution to my problem. Maybe I don't even need to use checkboxes.
Here it is...
I'm a DJ and wedding season is coming up. For each wedding that I do, I usually give the bride and groom a list of my songs and they choose a bunch of songs that they'd like to have at their reception. In the past, I've just been sending them a webpage word document with the songs and they'd send me their selections in a different document or directly in the reply email. I'd like to make this process easy for them (and myself) by making a pdf document where they can simply place a checkmark beside the songs that they want and then send it back to me. As a bonus (if it's possible) i'd like to be able to export the songs that they selected into a separate document so that I don't have to go through the entire pdf (with thousands and thousands of songs) when they send it back to me.
I would be ever greatful if somebody help me or direct me to a link with some additional information.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

George, thank you very much for your quick reply and good advice.
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