Signing and saving with Acrobat 9

I have recently upgraded to Acrboat 9 from Acrobat 6.
One of the features of Acrobat 6 was that when I open an PDF through Acrobat on my file management software, it would open the PDF, and I could place a signature field, and sign the document with a Digital ID and it would save over the PDF in my file management software.
However, with Acrobat 9. When I go to save the document, it asks me to "Save As" and resave the document. With our file management software, the document opened through the software has a temporary file created in a hidden folder which is then resaved after editing. After resaving the PDF I have to reimport the PDF back to our file management software.
I understand that Adobe has changed this to allow for more safety and security, but is there a way to make it resave to the same opened document each time?
Joshua

Do you know of any solutions to my problem? To clarify, my client uses Windows XP Professional, Adobe 8 and Internet Explorer 7

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