Open pdf in browser: inexplicable issue

Hi, so I've been using flash for a little while, mainly self-taught. The following is an AS2 question, because I'm still wading my way through AS3, being completely unfamiliar with programming.
I'm trying to do something that i've done in the past in most versions of flash between MX and CS3, but now I'm doing it with cs5.5 which I haven't done before.
I have a fairly simple interactive portfolio which will be burned onto CD.
In one page, I have a button which aims to link to a PDF that's in the same directory as the flash movie, in the user's default browser, using
pdfbutton.onRelease = function (){
getURL("a_document.pdf", "_blank");
which usually works, just opening up the browser, or a tab in the browser, and then doing whatever the user's browser does with pdfs, whether that's open them, prompt to open with or save or whatever.
However, now what's happening is that the browser opens (and i've tried it in chrome and internet explorer), and appears to attempt to open a URL called 'a_document.pdf' or 'http://a_document.pdf' in chrome and explorer respectively, which of course isn't a real url, and so it gives me a 'page not found'. Has something changed in the way either CS5 or most modern browsers open documents in this manner that would mean doing things like that? If so, how would I go about getting it to open off the local location?

kid-hatrack wrote:
I have a fairly simple interactive portfolio which will be burned onto CD.
What server? Sorry, that sounds snarky, I know you're trying to help me. But, swf is on local drive, pdf is on local drive. Opens great online, which makes sense, considering getURL is designed to open urls, but tries to parse filename as a url, which I feel like it didn't used to do.
Anyhow, after further internetting, I think my best bet is to figure out what fscommand is and how to use it.

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