App.launchURL() Frustration

Hi,
I have searched all the documentation I have available. I have searched this forum and every other Acrobat forum I could find, I have searched the web and still have had no luck with a solution to this problem:
the method app.launchURL("http://www.example.com/", true); does not open the link in a NEW window but opens the link in an existing window. Is there any way to make this work using Acrobat Reader 7 or above in Internet Explorer 6 or above?
Lots of people have asked a similar question but I have yet to find a solution.
Thanks
Simon Kemp

Any solution found?
I have a pdf form displayed in a browser window (using fdf toolkit/ASP.NET). I want a button to open a new browser window and display another pdf file that is on the server. Under Acrobat 7, this worked well using app.launchURL(http://www.mysite.com/myfile.pdf, true). This doesn't work under Acrobat 8. It just hangs IE. I think this is because it needs to use a trusted function. I don't see that I can because I don't have access to the App/Init event - only the document event.
The following doesn't work either - it causes "Internet Explorer cannot download . Unspecified error":
getURL("javascript:void(window.open('http://mysite.com/myfile.pdf'))", false)
Is there any way whatsoever that I can have Adobe Reader 8 displaying a pdf in a new window from a link/button in a pdf? And in Reader 5 and 6 too?

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