Security on Acrobat Form

My client gave me a form with Changing the Document: Not Allowed and Document Assembly: Not Allowed.
Is there any way that I can make myself a copy, as the developer, of this form with full access? Somehow copying the content and creating a new file? My problem is that I have an Acrobat javascript that will not work in LiveCycle (copied below). In Acrobat, this script is in the button properties, with a .js file in Acrobat>javascript as a trusted function. It works in Acrobat, but I can't get it to work in LC.
newDocName = "";
f1 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Last_Name[0]").valueAsString;
if (f1!="") newDocName += f1 + " ";
f2 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].First_Name[0]").valueAsString;
if (f2!="") newDocName += f2 + " ";
f3 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Date[0]").valueAsString;
if (f3!="") newDocName += f3 + " ";
f4 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Email[0]").valueAsString;
if (f4!="") newDocName += f4;
newDocName = newDocName.replace(/[\\,\/,\:,\*,\?,\",\<,\>,\|,\,,\n,\r]/g,"");
docPath = this.path+"";
docPath = docPath.substring(0, docPath.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
mySaveAs(this,docPath+newDocName+".pdf");

Yes, I agree that these options aren't useful in this case. And to answer your question, I did ask for the document with full access, but the customer couldn't provide one. I think that she created the form in LiveCyle, which, I gather, is not compatible with Acrobat tools for objects. Do you have any suggestions on how to mofify this javascript, which works in Acrobat on a button, so that it will work in LiveCycle?
newDocName = "";
f1 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Last_Name[0]").valueAsString;
if (f1!="") newDocName += f1 + " ";
f2 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].First_Name[0]").valueAsString;
if (f2!="") newDocName += f2 + " ";
f3 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Date[0]").valueAsString;
if (f3!="") newDocName += f3 + " ";
f4 = this.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Email[0]").valueAsString;
if (f4!="") newDocName += f4;
newDocName = newDocName.replace(/[\\,\/,\:,\*,\?,\",\<,\>,\|,\,,\n,\r]/g,"");
docPath = this.path+"";
docPath = docPath.substring(0, docPath.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
mySaveAs(this,docPath+newDocName+".pdf");
I tried putting this in the Script Editor with MouseUp, but it doesn't work.

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