Linking to pages or destinations within PDFs not consistent on different computers

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I'm building a web page and want to link to specific pages on a pdf. On some people's computers, it works, no problem. On others, it doesn't. Has anyone run into a problem like this? The problem doesn't seem to be specific to what version of acrobat the user has. All users are windows based. Any ideas? Thanks!

That does sound like a bit of an odd issue, but I may have an explanation:
As I recall (and Wikipedia confirms), Microsoft completely re-wrote the network stack for Windows Vista. The changes implemented here could explain the better performance that you are experiencing on your Vista machine vs. your XP machine. Some of the changes include:
A native implementation of IPv6 (your UML290 uses IPv6 to communicate)
A complete overhaul of IPv4

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