InDesign Form Exported Looks Different in Acrobat

I am trying to keep my form elements looking the same in Acrobat as they do in the InDesign doc that created them.
The fields and radio buttons are showing a bluish purple tint when they should be white. Also the radio buttons are larger in Acrobat than they are in InDesign.
Please see image.
Anyone have any experience with this issue?
I'm running ID CC on MacBook Pro 10.9 and exporting to Acrobat Interactive.
THanks

It is a feature of Acrobat and Reader that form fields are highlighted for easy user recognition. The user can turn this off, but I'm not sure if you can set it off in the initial view settings.

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