Saving forms Acrobat 9

Hi All. I have created numerous forms using Acrobat 9 Pro and I have extended reader rights so that they can be filled in and saved. When i download these forms from our server i can write into them and save. If i open this file again i am no longer able to write into it and save. Is this normal or have i not ticked some box when creating the file. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated because I'm going round in circles with this one. Thanks in advance Graham Carson

At the moment it's only me because the site hasn't gone live yet so i am creating the forms and then uploading to our server then downloading and opening in reader 8. When i initially download its running through Acrobat 9 pro - i then save to my local disk, go to open in reader 8 and then it says i can't save into the form. If it makes a difference i am using the server side to combine PDF files (with the forms in them) so that i effectively just download 1 file. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong.

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Kenneth M. Klemow, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Associate Director, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
570-408-4758 (office), 570-408-7862 (fax)
[email protected]
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