Why is InDesign exporting HTML instead of PDF?

Hello,
I recently upgraded to InDesign CC 2014. My first project that I created is being exported as a HTML link and not the actual PDF file.
Is it something I'm doing wrong? Also, none of my saved file icons are showing with the InDesign file icon. I've linked them with InDesign, however when I click on them they do not open and I get an error. Is it possible this has something to do with it?
This is incredibly frustrating as I need to this project printed.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

So, looks like I figured it out. The file associations is what did it. For some reason it was it was using Firefox to view the PDF. I wondered if it was doing due to some update with Acrobat.
So I reinstalled Acrobat. I saw that when I exported the file the extension changed from .html to .pdf.
So then I right clicked on the icon>properties and it let me change the associated program to Acrobat instead of Firefox.
I'm not sure if that is what needed to happen, but it appears (at least for the moment) that everything is fixed. I'm going to go tomorrow to see if I can get it printed. Hopefully everything will have exported correctly.

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If you ave created the form and then filling it yourself and saving the form, the filled data should be there when you reopen the same form.
Can you please send the form to me at [email protected] so that I can have a look.
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