Creating Auto-Bookmarked PDF compilations?

I have a directory tree structure set up in specific group order such that:
Type1
-Typea
--Typea pdf's
Typeb
--Typeb pdf's
-Typec
--Typec pdf's
Type2
-Typea
--Typea pdf's
-Typeb
--Typeb pdf's
What I'd like to do is to have all Type2/Typea Pdf's combined (so that the bookmarks get generated off the filename), then all Type2/Typeb combined, then have these two combined under Type2 (to have a nested bookmark). Then do the same thing with all the Type1/* combinations, and then combine Type1 & Type2 for full nesting. Basically, I just want a single, overall pdf that mimics the directory structure here through its bookmarks. I have a little strip program that I can run to get rid of the .pdf extensions from the file names, but if these still exist in the end product that is ok.
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and can't figure out how to do this task. What I'd like is something where I just gave it the path\filenames (these names are probably not going to change) and feed it this script to process. Any suggestions or hints? I would like to stay away from dragging and dropping, and since the end product will *not* be viewed in 9, I can't use the portfolio type.
Thanks so much,
Stephen

Hi All,
I too seem to be stuck on how to do this, any help will be appreciated. I’m using Acrobat Pro 9.4
Right now I have the following situation:
Directory = Hardware Manuals
                SubDirectory 1 = Section 1
                                .PDF’s
                SubDirectory 2 = Section 2
                                .PDF’s
                Etc.
I would like to have Bookmarks generated in Acrobat that use the Directory names and the file names so the result will look like this in the bookmark pane. TIA
Cheers,
Russell

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