PDF Forms Saved as CFM Files

OK, this is kind of a bizarre question and I suspect it has something to do with my having Master Collection installed on my machine and a file typing issue.  But I can't confirm for sure . . . so if anyone has any ideas to point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
I'm running Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) with Master Collection CS5 installed.
I'm a real estate agent and our MLS has forms for us to fill out when writing an offer to purchase for someone.  When we create a profile for our buyer, we fill out their basic information in a web form (Name, Address, Property Address, Purchase Price, etc. etc.).  Then we select (again through another web form) the forms we want to populate with the appropriate information.  Once we hit submit, we're given the option to open each form individually and then fill in other parts of the forms, etc.  The page that controls that is a Cold Fusion page  i.e. pagename.cfm followed by arguments that tell it what form to open and where to find the intormation to fill in.  When I've filled in the form and go to save it, on any machine that doesn't have Dreamweaver, etc. installed it saves those forms as a PDF file.  On my machine however, with everything installed, it wants to save them as CFM files.  Now I know they're actually PDF files and if I forget to rename it during the initial save, I can go in and change the extension and it opens in Acrobat just fine.  But I'd like to NOT have to remember to rename them everytime I save a form. 
So again, I think it's a file typing/extension issue . . . but I'm not sure where to start looking.  And I've never messed with that stuff in Windows 7 either.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
John

Came here to complain about this maddening feature. Why it doesn't save the PDF out to a separate instance of the document is beyond me. PLENTY of us want to save the PDF without the layers, and want the PSD separate.
"Oh good, I've completed this document.... let me just save it out as a PDF for client delivery and... Now all the work is gone."
Genius, Adobe, genius. But it's cool--we'll just keep paying out the nose on a subscription basis with no fix for small errors like this.

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