FM10/Acrobat X hypertext link problems

Hi All,
I just upgraded from FM7 to FM10 (10.0.2.419 version), and Acrobat 6 to Acrobat X, and found that the hypertext links (which worked well in Acrobat6) within the same book are broken in Acrobat X. However, the cross-book hyperlinks work well in Acrobat6 and Acrobat X.
I have 3 book files which contains cross-book hyperlinks and hypertext links within the same book. The book structure is as follows:
../book1/A.book
../book1/chapter1.fm
../book1/chapter2.fm
../book1/chapter3.fm
../book2/B.book
../book2/chapter1.fm
../book2/chapter2.fm
../book3/C.book
../book3/chapter1.fm
../book3/chapter2.fm
../book3/chapter3.fm
All hyperlinks are linked with hypertext markers (newlink and gotolink in 'Special -> Hypertext'). The converted PDFs are placed in the same folder.
The cross-book hyperlink works fine. My story is:
book1 has cross-book hyperlinks to book2 and book3. To add a hyperlink from "book1's chapter1" to "book2's marker1", I add 'gotolink ../book2/chapter2.fm:marker1' in file ../book1/chapter1.fm.
When converting these 3 books to pdf files, I'll open all book files, and print book to ps file one by one. After that, I'll use Acrobat Distiller (Acrobat X) to generate pdf files.
The cross-book hyperlink 'gotolink ../book2/chapter2.fm:marker1' will be converted, the target filename will be 'book2.pdf', and the destination name will be 'M8.8.newlink.marker1'.
The hypertext link within the same book is broken. The scenario is:
In book1, I want to add a hyperlink from chapter3 to chapter1, so I insert the hypertext marker 'gotolink chapter1.fm:marker2' in file chapter3.fm. After the conversion, the target filename becomes 'chapter1.pdf' (it should be 'book1.pdf'), and the destination name becomes 'M5.8.newlink.marker2' (it should be 'M8.newlink.marker2').
Am I missing something for the hyperlink above? Any thoughts?
Regards,
Maggie Yeong

I think I am having the same problem and I suppose the issue is a matter of semantics and familiarity with linking in general. What I have is a PDF document with web links of the format that Kim describes, but my problem is that this format only appears to work for external links. So I need to ask what should kind of linking is suitable to internal references. For example, "<a href="Documentation/IO.OS 2.1.3 Technical Overview.pdf#nameddest=alarm&zoom=40">Tech Doc</a>" seems to work for me on a browser viewed PDF document only if "IO.OS 2.1.3 Technical Overview.pdf" is not the document containing the link. In other words named destinations do not seem to be the correct linking method for internal links in HTTP served documents. Perhaps the problem is the browser which is fix by workplace standards at IE7?

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