Writable PDF Issues on MAC Platform - HELP!!

Is this normal for writable PDFs to not function correctly on MACS? I am not having any problems on my PC or on different PC browsers. After testing my form on a MAC, I found many problems. Date and numerical fields are not working. My date doesn't come up and users can enter anything in the numerical fields. My reset button only cleared the checkboxes, but only sometimes. The tab order is also not functioning correctly.
Do I need to do something different for MAC's? Please HELP!! Everything works fine on PC's. I work for UC Santa Cruz and most of our campus uses MAC's.
I was trying to get away from using excel for forms, due to all of the issues that we have been having do to workstation and printer setups etc.
Platform Issues - MAC
Browser Safari - 2.0.1
Appreciate any help offered...
Thanks,
Rebecca Huth

Thank you Chris!!!
Yes, I was using the built in functionality.
The Mac I was testing on did not have Adobe Reader on it. I was able to hunt down another Mac where I could install Adobe Reader. I wasn't able to install anything on the Mac that I used yesterday. My form works as it should.
Thank you for getting back in touch with me so soon. I just started intorducing writable pdfs for our departments and I am very happy that it works across differnt platfroms as I thought it would.
Thanks again...=)
Cheers for Chris!!

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