Exporting PDF's with links

I'll do whatever you say, if only you can please help me with this one.
My job is to send my clients PDF quotes for products I sell and I use FileMaker. With the print command, I create the PDF and mail it to my client. Easy!
Now I want to embed links to my web site for the various products listed in the quote. So I open the newly created PDF with Adobe Acrobat Professional, select the text "Product 1", ctrl click on it and "Create Link" to http://www.mysite.com/product_1.html, select the text "Product 2", ctrl click on it and "Create Link" to http://www.mysite.com/product_2.html, etc… Tedious!
Anyway, I just solved the first tedious part of this workflow, which is to open the PDF file in Acrobat automatically as soon as it is created. I created a folder where I save the PDF and attached a folder action which goes like this:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with each_item in these_items
tell application "Acrobat 6.0.2 Professional" to activate
tell application "Acrobat 6.0.2 Professional" to open each_item
end repeat
end adding folder items to
Now I would like to add to this script something to automate the link creation process:
tell application "Acrobat 6.0.2 Professional"
if you find the exact text "Product 1"
please select it
and make link with data "http://www.mysite.com/product_1.html"
if you find the exact text "Product 2"
please select it
and make link with data "http://www.mysite.com/product_2.html"
keep on doing this 7 or 8 times
save
close file
tell application "Mail"
to compose new message [with recently saved file neatly attached after 2 lines of carriage returns]
and please don't forget to put the cursor at the top of the document so that I can start working myself
Hey Wow! Thank You! That will be all for now.
end tell
But Script Editor tells me it found a Syntax Error when it tries to compile this one. Any ideas why?

Can you post the exact script? Your general description doesn't really help to explain why it doesn't compile.

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