Sign pdf and submit without saving locally?

We have a site license for Acrobat Pro 8. We've developed a dynamic online form with a submit button on it which posts back the server. The form is opened in Acrobat 8, not the web browser (by configuration, since we have to save the entire pdf and not just the form fields)
The idea is for people to sign the form and submit it back so it will be saved. That works. We have two problems:
- immediately upon signing, people are prompted to save the pdf locally. That distracts them, they forget to submit, etc. We just want them to sign and submit. Can we turn off local saving when signing?
- after the pdf is submitted to the server, Acrobat captures the response and displays it as a pdf. We'd prefer it didn't. Opening a new window means the user has to close that, and then the form window as well.

It's a post to an aspx page. The page returns some html which is turned into a pdf by Adobe Pro 8 and displayed.
It might be preferable to do this in Reader, but we don't want to Reader enable the form (for $10K) when we already have a site license for pro.

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