Force Flash weblink to open in SAME window as movie

I'm using Adobe Encore CS4 to create a project that I want to export to Flash. However, I want one of my menus to be replaced by a web site.
The goal is to have a flow such that:
Menu 1.
<User Clicks Item #1>
Timeline plays
user is forwarded to a website
I have implemented this as follows:
Menu 1.
Button 1 --> Timeline --> Menu 2
on menu 2, I set the description to:
<weblink href="webpage.html">
as suggested in the manual.
This works, apart from the fact that after the timeline ends, the flash movie goes black, and a new window is opened with webpage.html (which is blocked by popup blockers unless specifically allowed).
What I would like is for webpage.html to be opened in the same window, so that the flash movie is no longer visible.
I have tried modifying the description field to
<weblink href="webpage.html" target="_self">
but it doesn't help. In the generated AuthoredContent.xml, I've tried changing the <action> item:
<Action type='Link' url='webpage.html'>
to:
<Action type='Link' url='webpage.html' target='_self'>
to no avail. I can't seem to find any documentation on these fields.
Is anyone able to help?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
I'm not aware to force this behaviour, but if it is a regular link you can drag the link onto the same tab heading you are currently looking at. Obviously this won't work for form submissions where there is no link to drag as such

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