I cannot place an electronic signature in a document with form fields?!

I have Acrobat Pro installed on a windows 7 and windows 8.1 machine. On both I have lost the ability to place an electronic signature (Draw my signature) and only have the option for a digital signature. The problem is remedied if I print to pdf but then I lose the form fields.
I'm an idiot and so are the people that I need to send this to. I just want to easily fill the necessary fields out, draw my signature and forward it to the next guy to do the same so that it can be printed and turned in. Digital signatures are severe overkill for this (and i'm not going to be able to teach everyone how to create one) and I need to know how to re-enable the ability to electronically sign and keep the form fields.

re: "Digital signatures are severe overkill for this"
Yep, I discovered that as well.
I rolled my own "signature" for a client...I just added a 3 character "initials" field and a "Certify" button.
The initials act as the signature and once they hit the certify button, all form fields are set to read-only....via custom javascript.
The only problem is that I am unable to SAVE the document via javascript because of Acrobat trusted functions....
which I don't have.
So I just prompt the user to Save the document at that time.
It's a little ugly, but it works..

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