Converting PowerPoint with Action Buttons To PDF Form Question

I am currently using Acrobat Pro 9.5.0 on Win 7 and Win XP sp3
I have created Power Point Slide with one Action Button. When I set the Action Button to Hyperlink to a video file, and use Acrobat > Form > Start from Wizard ..", the PDF file created by Acrobat has my Action Button as a field.   This field allows the click of this field to execute a certain action.   This is what I want.
When I set the Action Buttion to hyperlink to an internal slide on my Power Point presentation (which has video inserted on that slide), and when I use Acrobat > Form > Start from Wizard ..", the PDF file created by Acrobat doesn't have my Action Button as a field.    It appears just as a regular pdf with no fields.
Is there a way to get the wizard to convert my Action Button when I hyperlink to a slide to show up as a field (as in hyperlinking to an external file) ???
I am using PPT 2007 (which doesn't allow true embedding of video within the PPT slide.   On PPT 2010 has this embedding feature.
I would appreciate any help you can offer.
Thank You,
G

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