Problem - Hyperlinks change on export to PDF

Working in Indesign 7.0.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.5
I have been asked to design a publication that will include hyperlinks to other files (PDFs and Word documents) on the client’s network.
The client has supplied as the source a Word document with hyperlinks that start with:
\\Nwfileprintvm\vol1\shared\... and so on which (I presume) goes to a document on their network.
When I import the Word document into InDesign, the hyperlinks come in the same way. I have set up the hyperlinks as “Shared Destination” links, as there will be several separate links to the same destination in the InDesign document.
However, when I export the InDesign document to its final form as a PDF, the hyperlinks in the PDF are somehow automatically prefaced with a location on MY local hard drive (my working folder for the document). They become:
File:///Volumes/LaCie750/… and so on until they pick up the rest of the file path starting with \\Nwfileprintvm … as above.
I am exporting using [Smallest file size] since the PDF will be viewed on screen, and with “Include Hyperlinks” ticked.
So, if I deliver this PDF to the client, it looks like it will try to link back to my hard drive, rather than their network drive.
What am I doing wrong? How can I export a PDF where the links point to the client’s network rather than my local drive?

Yes, the hyperlink is defined correctly, without the preceding code linking to my hard drive.
In the hyperlink panel the full path is:
\\Nwfileprintvm\vol1\shared\Business Development\Program Support\Ten things.doc
When I export to PDF, the link becomes:
file:///Volumes/LaCie%20750/Work%20in%20progress/New%20work/Project%209999%20NewProject/\\ Nwfileprintvm\vol1\shared\Business Development\Program Support\Ten things.doc

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