Can't open same pdf to different page...

I am creating a pdf document that contains hyperlinks to open other pdf files to specific pages by adding #page=pagenumber to the end of the url.  The problem arises when I've opened a pdf with one link, then click a link to the same pdf, but with a different page number specified.  Because that pdf is already open, it will not re-open and go to the second page.  It just sits there on the first page opened in that pdf and does nothing.
I have found ond kludgey work around - adding additional forward slashes in one of the the urls will fool the system into thinking the urls are different and the same pdf can be opened to different pages one after the other, no problem.  I'm hoping someone has a more elegent solution.  Thanks for any advice you can give.

I tried named destinations as you suggested, but didn't work.  Thanks for the suggestion, though.  I may have found a partial fix.  I'm creating my pdf in InDesign CS5 and, on a hunch, I tried setting two button actions: Go To Next View before Go To Url.  For some reason, when I export the document to a pdf, the links will now work as I wanted.  I'm not sure why this works since, from what I read, Go To Next View should only do something if you've gone to a previous view, giving it somewhere to return to.  I'll take it, though.
To answer your first question, the reason I want to link one pdf to multiple pages in a second pdf is that we have many large pdfs containing our company's procedures - yes, they're so large that putting them all in one file is not practical.  So, when I need to refer readers to something in another pdf, I want to have them click a link or button and the second pdf will open in a new window to the page I specified.  One link on one page might take them to the Glossary clear at the back of the other pdf, and another link might take them to the Introduction at the start of the pdf.  I'm amazed from my searching that there isn't more about this issue online.  I have found a few people who experienced the same thing, but none of them have ever solved it.  It's not just limited to buttons in pdfs, either - creating links in an HTML document has the same problem of not being able to open the same document to two different pages successively using two links.

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