On-line PDF is distorted

i have a perfectly good PDF made aith Acrobat 8. it works fine and looks great with the format and the fill-in the blanks section.
BUT, when I load it onto our website, it gets distored. Looks like a color separation gone bad.In one instance a JPG gets distorted three different ways. Not sure why this is happening..
any ideas?

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