No submit button in distributed form

I have creted a from in Live Cycle Designer. After distribution submit button is not visible in Acrobat and/or Reader version 9. I apprecite any help. I am Windows Vista based and using Acropbat Pro 9, LiveCucle Designer ES 8.2.
thanks

I'm distributing the form in Acrobat Pro 9.
I created the form in Live Cycle Designer. Save, then open in Acrobat pro. Extend Features to Acrobat Reader, click the drop down box on Forms and hit distribute. I save a local copy. When I open the distributed form the buttons do fall silent, the Submit Button on the purple line up top still works, but that doesn't appear in reader and the people who will be completing the form all use reader. Any suggestions for a fix?
I'd like to distribute because that automates the tracking. It works undistributed.

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I have creted a from in Live Cycle Designer. After distribution submit button is not visible in Acrobat and Reader. I've looked at the form JavaScript and find out this part of code which probably hide submit button in Acrobat 9:
showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
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I am not familair with JavaScript so I would apprecite if someone can help me how to edit it to make submit button visible.
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//@@FORMSWORKFLOW auto-generated script
AdobePatentID="B643"
var AdobePatentID = "AdobePatentID=\"B643\"";
// Show a dialog to ask the user's name and email during submit.
askUserIdentity = function(doc)
    // string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:          "Send Form",
        sEmailLabel:        "&Email Address:",
        sNameLabel:         "Full &Name:",
        sSubmitLabel:       "&Send",
        sToLabel:           "To:",
        sSubjectLabel:      "Subject:",
        sSubjectContent:    "Submitting Completed Form",
        sAttachmentLabel:   "Attachment:",
        sFromLabel:         "From:",
        sErrorEmailRequired:"Please enter a valid email address.",
        sErrorNameRequired: "Please enter your name."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        elements:
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sToLabel,
                        width: 80,
                        bold: true,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "sdto",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectContent,
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sAttachmentLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "atch",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sFromLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sEmailLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "emal",
                width: 250
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sNameLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "name",
                width: 250
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
                ok_name: dlgStrings.sSubmitLabel
    var desc = {
        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.initialize = function(dialog)
        var METADATA_ANNOT_NAME = "adhocFormState";
        var PROP_INITIATOR = "initiator";
        var initiator;
        var annot = doc.getAnnot(0, METADATA_ANNOT_NAME);
        if (annot != null) {
            var arrProps = new Array();
            arrProps = annot.contents.split(";");
            initiator = getProperty(arrProps, PROP_INITIATOR);
        var decodedFileName = unescape(doc.documentFileName);
        var initVars =
            sdto: initiator,
            atch: decodedFileName
        dialog.load(initVars);
    desc.validate = function(dialog)
        var values = dialog.store();
        if (values.emal == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorEmailRequired);
            return false;
        if (values.name == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorNameRequired);
            return false;
        return true;
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.name = values.name;
        this.result.email = values.emal;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
askEmailClient = function(doc)
// string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:      "Select Email Client",
        sDlgText:       "Please indicate the option which best describes how you send mail.",
        sDesktop:       "&Desktop Email Application",
        sDesktopDesc:   "Choose this option if you currently use an email application such as Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, or Mail.",
        sInternet:      "&Internet Email",
        sInternetDesc: "Choose this option if you currently use an Internet email service such as Yahoo or Microsoft Hotmail. You will then need to save your form and return it manually to [email protected] using your Internet email service."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        alignment: "align_fill",
        elements:
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sDlgText,
                width: 350,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sDesktop,
                item_id: "rad1",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sDesktopDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sInternet,
                item_id: "rad2",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sInternetDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
    var desc = {
        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            width: 250,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.send = values.rad1;
        this.result.save = values.rad2;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
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// set a new property value to a property in the specified array.
setProperty = function(arrProps, propName, propValue)
    var i;
    var bSet = false;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            propParts[1] = propValue;
            arrProps[i] = propParts.join(":");
            bSet = true;
            break;
    if (!bSet)
        arrProps[arrProps.length] = propName + ":" + propValue;
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// get the value for a property in the specified array.
getProperty = function(arrProps, propName)
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            return propParts[1];
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showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
else
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(true);

I'm distributing the form in Acrobat Pro 9.
I created the form in Live Cycle Designer. Save, then open in Acrobat pro. Extend Features to Acrobat Reader, click the drop down box on Forms and hit distribute. I save a local copy. When I open the distributed form the buttons do fall silent, the Submit Button on the purple line up top still works, but that doesn't appear in reader and the people who will be completing the form all use reader. Any suggestions for a fix?
I'd like to distribute because that automates the tracking. It works undistributed.

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I'm distributing the form in Acrobat Pro 9.
I created the form in Live Cycle Designer. Save, then open in Acrobat pro. Extend Features to Acrobat Reader, click the drop down box on Forms and hit distribute. I save a local copy. When I open the distributed form the buttons do fall silent, the Submit Button on the purple line up top still works, but that doesn't appear in reader and the people who will be completing the form all use reader. Any suggestions for a fix?
I'd like to distribute because that automates the tracking. It works undistributed.

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