Saving interactive forms with data AND then performing further edits

I need to produce a series of interactive PDF application forms which are long and quite complicated.
This being the case, is it possible to save the file in it's partially completed state and close it down then at another time re-open and continue to fill out the remainder of the form? I have extended features in Acrobat 9 to allow the user to fill out the form and save their changes, but when the people helping me test this re-open the form to continue, they get the message:
"This document contained certain rights to enable special features in Adobe Reader. The document has been changed since it was created and these rights are no longer valid. Please contact the author for the original version of this document."
The form is now locked and flattened with no live form fields on it.
To complicate matters, it doesn't work on the PCs in my office but I can do further editing after a save on my own computer - could that be something to do with Acrobat versions or is it maybe because I am the auther of the form?
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Dan Mason

Hey guys,
thanks for your fast reply!
@ Chintan:
I searched all through the wikis, blogs, forums etc. and I really couldn't find any example for the issues I tried to describe (maybe that is a problem?). If you have already read some threads about this theme, could you please point me to one? That would be really great!
@ Otto:
Maybe that could work, but I would like to leave out all the function module stuff. I'm dreaming of a direct connection between MII and the ADS. As I understood, the ADS and the PDFObject (wherever it comes from) are communicating via Webservice, that is not directly usable by other frameworks. I think that's the main problem?! So it's only possible to build a PDF object in ABAP or WebDynpro Java, that automatically communicates with the ADS and it's only initiatable via remote function call?!
Thanks and regards
Anika

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