Info on fillable forms and usage rights settings

I have created several different forms in Acrobat 8 and saved the forms on multiple office computers for employees to fill out. My first question: I have enabled the user rights to be able to fill-in, print and save completed forms. I am wondering if there is a way that when save as is used and they save the completed form, that this is their only option. Right now, if they fill it out and hit save instead of save as, it will save their filled form but will overwrite my original form file???
My second question: Once my employees have saved their filled form, when they go to email this filled form to a client, is there a setting to make the file they send read only?
I thought on my second question that maybe there was a way to save the filled form as read only, but ive had no luck figuring out how. On the first question, I have no clue so any help is GREATLY appreciated!!!

This free JavaScript-based tool for Acrobat is what you need: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/
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