[ID CS3 (Win)] - where does InDesign store my PDF file name?

Have you run into this before? You have a document (let's call it "MyDoc.indd") and you want to use it as the basis for a new document ("NewDoc.indd").
So you open MyDoc, Save As "NewDoc". You now work on NewDoc.
Some time later, you go to Export NewDoc as a PDF and it remembers MyDoc and recommends that as the file name for the PDF. If you change the file name for your PDF and then re-save your INDD file, it will now remember the new name as your default PDF name.
But what if you want to change this beforehand, eg: you're not ready to Export the file, but you want to make sure that when you do (or someone else does) they use the correct file name?
-- Tom
PS: I've noticed that this behaviour is different on a Mac and on a PC.

Sure I get that - but the question was "where is this information stored"? If I'm not ready to save my PDF yet, is there anywhere (like a Document Properties panel) that I can go to edit this information.
The use case is - you're preparing a file draft, but it will be finalized and printed by others. You would like to have some control over file naming conventions, so you want to make sure that when they go to save the PDF, the correct name is pre-populated.
Your technique will surely work (it's the one we've been using as well), but I don't want to save a "dummy" PDF just because I want to change the stored filename. This information _must_ be available somewhere else, no?
Thanks for your participation!
Tom

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