Digital Signatures - Form templates

[NotanITguru]

I created a form in Infopath and have been tweaking it as people are using
it. There are digital signatures on the forms. After I tweaked the form and
republished it, I am receiving this message:

"This form is digitally signed but was created with an older version of the
form template. The form will be upgraded to work with the new template, but
this may remove it's signatures. Do you want to view the signatures before
upgrading?"

Regardless of my answer, (yes or no), I can't pull the signatures back into
the form, which is basically making every form invalid and if printed, it
states "There is an issue with this signature" on the signature line.

Is there a way to get the signatures back to the way they were before the
update?

 

[KatherineZ]

I have the exact same problem! Did you ever find a solution?
I don't understand why the new version of the template is automatically
applied to forms created in the older version. If there's a way to turn off
this 'feature', that would be awesome...

-Katherine