Broken links from mac to Win

Hi all
A client has supplied a bunch of files in a folder which represents a CD volume. The structure is that it has a top level 'menu' pdf with link tool buttons off to a series of nested folders containing other pdfs, Quicktime movies and jpeg image files.
She built (what is intended as) the cd volume on her mac in A8Pro.
The links all work as expected on OSX but break on Win with the error that it cannot find the file and lists the path of the 'non-existant' file.
I think this is something to do with the difference between OS in how they handle sub directories
MAC volumename:folderlevel01:folderlevel02:filename.pdf
WIN volumename\folderlevel01\folderlevel02\filename.pdf
I really want the disc to be a Custom Hybrid with a HFS+ (iow standard OSX) volume and an ISO9660 - Joliet Windows volume on the same disc. So mac users get a nice custom graphic window and pc users get an autorun and all is fine in the world.
Is there a fix or workaround for this other than creating two sets of PDF files, one for each volume ?
tia
- Dean

The problem should have nothing to do with the disk directory structure,
but possibly everything to do with the name used for the file name or
directories on the path. What are the names of the files and
directories. Do they satisfy the old 8.3 plain ascii conventions with no
special characters in the names?
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