CS3 "Mailto:" hyperlink bug?

Hello.
I am developing a training catalog in ID CS3 (all the company will spring for right now). 17 pages. Each page for a different training topic. I put the dates in for a training on one page and use those dates as a hyperlink to a "Mailto" with the subject line indicate that training on those dates. The URL in the hyperlink window, then, is something like, for example:
"mailto:[email protected]?subject=DPR Series 1 Registration"
On each page, I also have a link for questions about that particular training. Each of those links will take the form:
"mailto:[email protected]?subject=DPR Question"
Again, each page has a different training, so the subject in the mailto is different each time.
I'm using unique names in the Hyperlink window so as to be certain that I really am putting in different subject links each time.
Why, then, does an Outlook email from the mailto link off of the PDF of the document always include as the subject whatever happened to be the last subject I typed in?
Has anyone experienced this? Is this a bug? I'm trying to be as careful as I can, but it still happens.
Deadline loomming this coming week...uh-oh!!!!
Thanks.
Glenn

Im geting the same... I tried refreshing cache etc... but no avail...

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