"Serial Distribution" of Acrobat Forms?

I work in a "paper era" office with people who can be persuaded to use the Acrobat forms
distribution/approval process for simple projects, but freeze when it comes to documents that need
"serial" (or consecutive) approval. What do I mean by this?
a) person A fills out a form and signs it
b) he posts it to a folder
c) person B opens and signs
d) then person C has a say...
and on through up to nine signatures.
Because there's a hierarchy, these approvals have
to be done in the right order. So, aside from managing it manually -- which won't save all
that much time, but at least gets rid of the paper -- what I need is an automated distribution that
lets A sign, then forwards it to B, who signs and sends to C ... etc
Is this a possibility in Acrobat X Pro? Has anyone solved it?

While Acrobat can handle multiple signatures, automating your process is a different matter, that will likely require a human element.
Yet this forum is for Acrobat.com. Acrobat.com provides online services for meetings and collaboration on documents, and we can't help with problems specific to the desktop version of Acrobat. I'm happy to point you in the right direction.
Acrobat Users moderated forums:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat
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