PDX index - how to remove absolute path to it?

I have a PDF and using File > Properties > Document Properties > Advanced tab have browsed to a Search Index, and added it to the PDF (I've added a big Search button that the user can press to search the entire, large, collection of PDFs).
The search index path that the Browse form puts in the Search Index: field points to a location on our network e.g. \\Server1\application\PDFs\index.pdx
This works fine when I'm running it locally, but when the PDF + index gets installed on a PC outside of our network the user gets a error telling them that it can't load the index.
I want to edit the path in the Search Index: field so that it is relative e.g. PDFs\index.pdx (the same location as the PDFs and the index file + folder), but the Search Index: field is greyed out and uneditable! I seem to be stuck with a useless absolute path.
Question: Is there any way of making the path to the PDF relative and not absolute? We need to put the PDF collection onto our software distribution DVD, and the customers will install it to their own PCs/network locations.
(I'm using Acrobat Pro X ver 10.1.8 on Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1, and the target audience will be using Acrobat Reader)

I think the problem is kinda fixed.
I created the library and index on a network drive and created a "start PDF" file at the same location. I opened the "start" file and used Ctrl-D > Advanced > Search index to add the name of the .pdx file.
I emailed the "start file" to someone else on the network. They downloaded it and double clicked it.
* They happened to be using the new 2015 Pro DC version. The message about the index associated with this document (...) could not be located. appeared. The path was expecting the .pdx file to be below the download directory.
* I clicked OK.
* Pressed Ctrl-Shift-F for advanced search.
* Clicked Show more options (because that user had never used Advanced Search) - and the index file was displayed in the look in field.
* Entered a search term and it worked perfectly.
I retested it using a Dropbox location. Created the "start PDF" file and emailed another person, not on the same network, but sees the same Dropbox folder. They use Acrobay XI v.11.0.10.
* The file was downloaded and double-clicked.
* Pressed Ctril-Shift-F - same index could not be located message - and again the .pdx file was assumed to below the download directory. But nothing auto-magically fixed itself.
The only solution here is to provide user with a link to the .pdx file on their desktop. When they double clicked it, Acrobat opens with the index loaded.
(Depending on the user, the other alternative is to add the index to the index list.)

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