External casts not using relative paths when protect movie

We make educational software using Director - the basic form
of the software is a stub movie projector with a load of protected
movies in a series of folders and sub folders - shared resources
are located in external casts within the folder hierarchy but not
necessarily within the same folder as the movie - this has worked
fine for ages. Navigation between movies is working fine, but..
..some of the movies are looking for external casts at their
original locations (absolute paths) rather than relative to the
movie file, so I can't port the project to another computer/
release the software without getting the error messages. Even when
I recreate the movies from scratch and link up the external casts,
I am getting the same result, almost as if the dir to dxr process
is not switching the movies from absolute paths to relative
paths..??
Any ideas appreciated!
Tom

Hi,
If I understand the problem correctly, I see two ways of going forward:
1. Hard code the entire URL.
2. Calculate the correct URL with JavaScript. I have a JS function for that on: http://www.wvanweelden.eu/blog/2012/08/03/get-relative-link-project-root
Greet,
Willam

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