PDF - Sharing Data?

Ok, here's the background and my dilemma: I work for a non-profit organization and we have employees filling out forms (protected MS Word Documents) for our various clients in different departments. Being the resident computer/IT guy, I was asked if we could translate a few of those forms into PDFs. This wasn't a problem for me. I do my Acrobat work on my PowerMac, but 98% of my users are PC. I created the PDFs based on the MS Word Doc, they staff can open the PDF, type in the information, save as their file, print, etc. No problems there.
The problem is that I've been asked, and now after struggling for a few days to accomplish this, how to export the data from one completed PDF and import it into another PDF.
For example, I have a Case Manager fill out information on a client referral in a PDF , save it as a PDF named for the client. Now (and what they're really asking me to accomplish) they don't want to spend all that time filling out another PDF when some of the information is already on the initial form. I don't need that whole "submitting information" capability that building a "PDF Form" curtails. The information just needs to be transferred from one PDF to another.
I know we have some PDFs in use from the US Government that I can have someone fill out, save as, then export the data in FDF file form, and then import that data to another (USGov) form. So what am I missing here? Why can't I seem to do the same?
Any thoughts/insight would be helpful. Thank you in advance for your efforts on my behalf.

RCruseJFCS wrote:
I know we have some PDFs in use from the US Government that I can have someone fill out, save as, then export the data in FDF file form, and then import that data to another (USGov) form. So what am I missing here? Why can't I seem to do the same?
Is this being done with Reader, or do your users have Acrobat? If Reader, it could be that the forms have additional usage rights which allow Reader to export form data. It normally cannot do this, and Acrobat cannot apply this particular usage right. LiveCycle Reader Extensions can, but it isn't inexpensive. To confirm this, can you provide a link to one of the forms that allows this?
You can set up the documents so that you can use JavaScript to copy form data from one to another. The documents that you want to copy data from need to set their "disclosed" property to true, and the documents that want to copy data need to have a script that checks the open documents to see if the one it needs to copy from is opened (using app.activeDocs), and then copy the field values into its own.

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