Interactive pdf is "dead" after accessing via intranet link in IE

Hello,
Our marketing dept. has created some nice interactive PDF's.    After posting to the intranet, however, these come down "flat" (all interactivity stripped out) in the IE pdf viewer. I'm assuming that this is by design for security reasons.
The audience is technophobic and unable to open Acrobat reader and flip the setting.   I'm exploring setting the default reader to Acrobat via a registry edit.
Is there any way to tell the IE in-browser pdf reader to allow interactivity to be displayed if a document is from a trusted URL?   We're using about 90% IE 7 and 8 with some IE6 remaining.
Any input/suggestions that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Trey Carroll

Hi Bernd,
The interactivity is mostly just a bunch of links that allow navigation within the pdf. Also, the page orientation where 2 pages display side-by-side (horizontally) is lost and the pages render singly in sequential order (vertically) when viewed in IE. I was guessing that this was becuase the IE viewer imposes security restrictions.
Thanks,
Trey Carroll

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