Leopold said:if you have the full version (i do) is it writable then?
No, it isn't. Once I determined that Reader wouldn't do what I wanted it to do I dumped the Acrobat forms completely. Honestly it's just too much work for too little reward. If Reader had been able to save forms after data was input I would have thought a lot harder about the amount of time creating the writable forms would have taken.
Maybe Adobe will release a version of Reader that saves forms. That would make PDFs a lot more valuable to the user.