Launching programs from adobe reader on linux/unix

I am hoping someone has solved this problem before:
We use pdf for our product manuals and have a large set of examples that we want to allow the user to open by clicking a button. In past releases (pre 8.0 et al) we have not had a problem opening things and we still don't on windows but now, whenever we click on our open buttons we get text of the file in a browser and can not seem to change this behavior.
I have modified Nautilus and konqueror such that double clicking on our files open the application but this does not change the behavior.
Prior to this we were using a script - open script results in launching our application on said example file.
How can we recover this behavior for our users? it makes our example manuals all but useless on Linux/Unix.
Thanks!
Dan F.

Hi,
Can you please share the PDF file so we can investigate the issue? You can email it to gaurav at adobe dot com.
Thanks,
Gaurav

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