How to use distribute form?

I know this has probably been answered a hundred times in these forums, but my searching has not turned up any answer that is useful to me as yet, so I will try posing the question anew.
I am using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro version 9.1.2
I have created a test that I want people to fill in and return the results to me. I would like to use the tracker, because it seems that would allow me to see who has taken the test or not. However, I really do not get how this is supposed to work.
I have a button embedded at the bottom of the form. The action on the button is mouse up submit a form. The URL is mailto:[email protected] which is my email address. I have FDF selected. When I select Distribute form, the only selections I get are "manually collect responses in my email inbox" or "automatically collect responses on my own internal server". The form I am trying to distribute is on a network drive. Because I put my email address in on the submit button, I choose the manually collect selection. I send it out under Adobe, and I do get responses back in my inbox. We use Microsoft Outlook as our mail client. Tracker never seems to acknowledge that anything has been sent nor that anyone has responded however. I did see that tracker only checks once an hour, so I waited, and still nothing.
I also tried to save it on a network drive. The online help indicates that you should be able to save to \\server\folder\ which I tried, but when I click on the link to submit, I get an invalid URL message. This is on the submit button. I put in \\server\folder\ (I use the actual server name and the folder\subfolders by the way), as directed in the documentation but the action prepends my server and folder name with http:// which results in http://\\server\folder\ which is invalid of course. The drive I am attempting to save to is not on a LAN. It is on a WAN, but all of the clients have read/write access to the drive. It is our "common" drive that we use for sharing data on the network. Windows copy function work fine for all users.
I did find some documentation indicating that I could submit to Adobe.com, but that option is not available to me for some reason when I select distribute forms. Only email or network drive. I do not seem to be able to get either to work to be able to pick up the returned forms under Tracker. It appears that my only option is to have the forms returned to me as an email, and then keep a manual list of who replys in a spreadsheet or something.
Has anyone ever had any luck getting tracker to work for forms, and if so, what is your secret?

Sorry I won't be a lot of help on this particular subject.
But what I can tell you is to be patient. The thread you are referring to certainly didn't get that many views and responces in two hours (which is roughly how long ago the time stamp says that you posted your original question).
Ther are some experts in here that I'm sure can help you out and you were very thorough describing the issue (which is a raritly in these forums) so I'm sure someone will be along eventually.
This also is a slow time of day around here. These are user to user forums so there isn't any particular person or people that are required to be here and answer questions as soon as they're asked.

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