ok.  Thanks for suggestion, I will try to create in Acrobat.

Called Adobe LiveCycle Designer, which is what came up when I was in Acrobat and said I wanted to create a new form...  Is there a LiveCycle Designer forum?

is this what you mean?

I created a fillable form and included the submit by email button.  In testing, the email goes to the address indicated however it comes as just a sting of text of the field type until it gets to name and address and those I can read.  I can't figure out how to submit as something other than a .xml ...