Interactive elements don't work in Preview

I have created a pdf document with numerous page links in InDesign CS4, and setting properties for the pdf in Acrobat CS4. Apparently Apple computers open pdfs with their Preview program by default. So the document opens in Preview for Mac users who haven't changed the default and therefore the page links do not work. Does anyone know if there is a way to either warn the user that they should open this document in Acrobat Reader, or set a property in Acrobat that tells the Mac computer to open the document in Acrobat Reader?

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>I have created a template for the 'traditional' top
banner, left
>navaigation
> buttons site. In preview mode, any links (navigation
area or not) that
> point to
> another page in the web site do not work, but external
links go. (No error
> is
> reported, but nothing happends) However, when published,
all links work.
> Any
> ideas what is happening?
>
> Eample link:
>
> <a href="../catalog.htm" target="_self"><img
> src="../_derived/catalog.htm_cmp_edge000_vbtn.gif"
width="140" height="34"
> border="0" alt="Catalog & Renewal"
/></a><br />
>
> The graphic does appear for the link.
>
> If it makes any difference, this is a convert FrontPage
site where I
> manually
> edited the html to import the pages into my first
Dreamweaver site.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Carolyn Wood
>

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