External PDF links in Internet Explorer - PDF/A issue?

Hi,
I am having an issue with certain links within PDFs not working when the PDF is being viewed with IE. I have created external PDF links using the Go to a Page View linking feature within Acrobat and then opening an external PDF file and setting the link. The extrernal links work fine when viewing the PDFs within Acrobat, however when I view the PDFs within IE the external links do not work. I am running Acrobat 9.3 and IE 8.
I know there is an issue with PDF/A disabling external PDF links, is it possible that IE always displays PDFs in PDF/A mode, even though I have set PDF/A View Mode to never within Acrobat? Also, I do not remember this being an issue in earlier releases of Acrobat 9, however I am supporting a large group of people that have already updated to Acrobat 9.3 and would hate to have to roll them back. Any ideas as to a possible solution would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Randy

Frank Huether (guest) wrote:
: Eric Dannewitz (guest) wrote:
: : I am currently awaiting the shipment of Developer 6, with the
: new
: : Reports server. I'm currently using the Developer 2.1
Reports
: : server with OAS 3.0.1 and there is a known bug that PDF
: reports
: : don't display with ANY version of Microsoft Internet Explorer
: 4,5
: : with just the Acrobat Reader installed........
: : Is this fixed in Developer 6 release?
: Eric,
: I'm using the OAS 4.0 and there are no problems for Reports 3
in
: PDF format neither in MS IE nor Netscape.
: Frank
Um, do you have the FREE Acrobat reader installed, or the FULL
Acrobat Exchange package. IE works fine with the full reader....
I'd be interested to know how you go Reports 3 to work with OAS
4......
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