Can a link be made to survive a move to another computer?

I have a folder with a few PDF document files in it. There are links in some of the files that can OPEN others of the files in the same folder. As you know, the addresses of these target files are stored in the links with their complete paths, from C:/ to the file names. I plan to put the folder on a CD for distribution as an e-book. A reader might want to store the folder on a computer. That will probably give the files entirely different paths. So the links will no longer work and will put up error messages saying that no such file can be found.
Is there a way around that problem? Is there a way to limit a link to addresses stored on the same folder without providing the entire path? (None of the links would let me edit out any part of the path.) I use a VISTA PC and Acrobat 8 Pro. Thank you for your help.
Harold

Gloria,
Thank you. It's encouraging to know that it's "supposed" to work. But before I posted this topic, I did try moving the entire folder from my Desktop to another location on the same computer, and the links no longer worked. So it might be another VISTA problem. But then you'd think that all of the hundreds of links on other programs and disks that we click on each day wouldn't work on VISTA either. Well, I'll keep trying.
Geo Kaiser,
Thank you for your reply too. I should have made it clear that I'm not going on the Internet with these files. They will be distributed by CD. I think your reply is meant for Web-page links. Are there such things as "relative" and "absolute" links in ordinary computer-resident files? If so, how do you make Acrobat produce "relative" links? That's the big question. (I hope it isn't a VISTA bug that can't be fixed, as Gloria's comments imply.)
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