Making an InDesign CS4 table of contents interactive when exporting to Acrobat Pro 9

I apologise if this is a basic and blatantly obvious scenario:
I have an InDesign document that contains a Table of Contents. I need to create an accessible [tagged] pdf in Acrobat 9 with each item in the table of contents being able to link to the corresponding page in the document. For the life of me I cannot get my head around how to do this. Is there a way?

This involves how the table of contents is created in InDesign.
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