Problem using app.launchURL with Adobe Reader X

Hello -
Have an application that is going live in a couple of days. In many of our fillable PDF forms we use:
app.launchURL("http://www.yoursitehere.com", true);
This worked fine until our company pushed out Adobe Reader X to all of our employees. Now the above function does nothing.
Is anyone experiencing similar? When I say the function does nothing, you click on button that runs the above function, and no new window opens with specified URL.

I am not quite sure what that means. Can you please explain?
This has worked on same client pc before with version 7 - 9. Now doesn't work anymore since upgrade to Adobe Reader X.
Note: ALL other AcroScript functions work properly
Really appreciate any assistance you have.
Jeremy
*** UPDATE *** - I just tested more. The only thing that is NOT working is the second parameter of the launchURL.
If I remove that parameter, or put FALSE, then the URL opens. However, it opens in the same window which is not what we need.
Putting TRUE in there produces no result.
Message was edited by: jred33

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