Reader extensions option

We recently purchased Livecycle ES4 and was wondering how to the set the pdf with reader extensions, there dont seem to be an option available of which It was readily available in our copy of Acrobat 9.
Any help is appreciated

Thanks TundraSteve
We are a organisation with only 40 employees, and in the past have extended the rights in pdf forms to allow our staff to fill in test results and save the completed form to the server. The most the form would be accesed is probably only on 4 occasions before it is stored on our server for future reference purposes if required. All documentation is internal and cannot be accessed by anybody outside of our organisation and any form that is sent out to a client would be locked down and not have reader extensions enabled.
Being a small organistaion, I can assume that the path of using Acrobat 9 would be prefered as enabling the option in LiveCycle is not cost effective or worthwhile?
Many thanks

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>. I understand that this LifeCycle Reader Extensions allows for such a result
That's correct.
>but I have not clue how to add this funtionality to my already created PDF?!?
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> I have downloaded the trial version Adobe LifeCycle Designer 7.1 (which appears to have full functionality for only 60 days)in hopes to just add this capability
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