Share Batch Processing Sequences?

I have created some Acrobat Pro 9 Batch Processing sequences that I would like to share with others on my team. Is there a way for me to export or copy the sequence and give it to others? I am on a Mac.

try67,
I appreciate your help/answer, but I do not have that path...not sure why. I have Applications/Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro/ and then the following list of items: Acrobat Distiller.app, Acrobat Uninstaller.app, Adobe Acrobat Pro.app, Bitte lesen.html, Ouvrez-moi.html, ReadMe.html
If I double-click the Adobe Acrobat Pro.app as in your list, it just opens Acrobat. I have tried searching for Sequences, but I only find older Sequences folders from previous versions of Acrobat. I have looked in each of them to see if I could find the custom sequences that I created, but none of them show up. I even did searches based on .sequ file names. Again, my custom ones do not show up in the search but they do exist in my Batch Processing menu.
I have a feeling this might be job for our IT Dept. unless someone else has an idea.
I appreciate your time!
PS. I am wondering if this is an issue with Snow Leopard rather than Acrobat.

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