CS5 Interactive pdf problems

When I export my book to an interactive pdf, the bookmarks generated by the TOC do not work, nor do the Index links or the cross-references. If I create a bookmark from the bookmark panel it seems to work. I heard there was a problem with this - has there been any update to correct it? I can export to a print pdf, and all the links work! However, the print version doesn't open to a page that fits the screen, and the appearance is generally not as screen-friendly as it could be. What good is an interactive pdf that isn't! Any ideas?
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I have found the answer to this problem myself!
Because the interactive setting does not support spot colours being kept it causes problems with any RGB Illustrator files that have been set up using a spot colour. You may well ask why you would want spot colours in an RGB Illustrator file. Well, it's to keep any Lab values intact, but to get around the PDF colour issue you can't have any spots used in this way.

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