How do I create a pdf in Indesign with 40 file hyperlinks so it can be used on different computers?

I am creating a document in Indesign CS4 that is to be exported as a pdf.
Within this one page document, there are approximately 40 listed products, one after the other and each product has been set up to hyperlink to a specific pdf in the same directory.
This has been no problem.
Where the problem is, is that it won't work on other computers because it seems to 'hardwire' the hyperlink file address.
I then went in and set up the hyperlink as a URL.  This worked on any computer, but then the pdf opens in an internet browser.
I NEED THE LINKED PDF TO OPEN IN ADOBE READER.
I then opened the one page pdf in Adobe Acrobat Pro.  It brought over no hyperlinks.  So I created the hyperlinks there.  No probs.  It worked.  But if I want to update this one page doc in the future, I'm going to have to create all links again.  I have other docs that I need to create that have hundreds of links.
Can anyone shed some light on this?  It shouldn't be difficult.  Why won't a linked file just work on any computer?
Your help will be greatly appreciate.
Josh

Josh,
Got your email with added question related to this user to user forum post. As others might have the same question, answering it here.
If you want to point to PDFs that are in a subfolder of the root-directory that holds the pdf containing all the links, you'd need to add the subfolder to the path-specification for the link..
For example:
root-folder has 'source.pdf' that has a link going to 'desitnation.pdf'
a 'subfolder' contains 'desitnation.pdf'
Link path would be '/subfolder/destination.pdf'
Cheers,
Cari
www.twitter.com/carijansen

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