Why my form works flawlessly in Acrobat Pro but is broken in the Reader?

Hi,
after a couple hours of trial and error, I finally made a nice form with Acrobat Professional 8.1.2.
I have a small workshop that makes signalisation signs. With that form, my client will have a nice tool to order them.
Here is my form (sorry, it's in french):
http://homepage.mac.com/danyb/Sites/PDF/Dab_Feuille_de_commande.pdf
In Acrobat professionnal, everything works, so the subtotal(somme partielle) is calculated from the 3 kinds of signs I make and the 2 taxes are applied.
But in the Reader (8.1.2), the subtotal is always 0.
Any suggestions on what's wrong?
Thanks
Dany, Qc

I just went through your form and changed the calculations from the short cut notation fields to the "Custom calculation script" (the script generated by the short cut fields will appear) and noticed the lines did not end with a return. Adding a return to the script in the custom field cleared up the problem.
I have seen a similar problem with JavsScript code being inserted programatically into form fields or other locations within a PDF form.
You might want to contact Acrobat about this problem.

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