Button linking to PDF

standard convention to link to a specific page of a PDF
document is to do this:
http://www.mydomain.com/myPDF.pdf#page=7
i apply this to the 'open url/file' in the button properties
"on success/user clicks button", but all that happens is the PDF
opens to page 1. never to the appropriate page in the document.
any ideas as to what could cause this?

sorry -- i have a captivate output file (SWF) residing within
a Captivateplayer, which resides on our LAN. in the SWF are a
series of buttons that all link to unique pages within on PDF,
which resides on our intranet.
i fixed one problem. turns out somebody uploaded a recent
edition of the PDF complete with a SPACE in the name. fixed that up
and now i've got a little bit closer to fixing the issue.
now, when clicking one of the buttons in the SWF, the PDF
will open to the appropriate page. GREAT! but when i close the PDF
(or extra browser session), and click a DIFFERENT button that links
to a different page in the PDF, the same previous page opens...as
if it's CACHED. thing is, to rule out this being an IE
cache/history thing, i forced adobe to open the file itself and to
not integrate with the internet explorer. ...and the same thing
happened.
what could cause this?

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