Publish as an exe with links

Hi all,
I've been trying to use the 'Publish as an exe' option in Captivate 4 but I'm coming up against a problem - although the swf and flv files are embedded within the exe I can't get the links to do the same thing. There are buttons on slides that are set to 'open file' (PDFs and Word docs) - even when I put these files in the same folder as the exe is published in, the exe doesn't open these files unless I specify the exact path - which obviously wouldn't be the same on every user's computer. What I need is to be able to have a fully self contained exe that performs all the same actions as it would if it were being published as a zip. How do I get the exe to find these files and open them?
Thanks for your help!

Hi there
Captivate 4 ships with Aggregator (some call it aggravator, but I digress) so there really isn't a MenuBuilder alternative to use. If you just have a few links to create, I'll be happy to do that for you so you can use them. Send me an email message to rstone75 (at) kc (dot) rr (dot) com and list the exact file names you want to link to. I'll fire you back a zip with some .SWF files that should do the trick.
Cheers... Rick
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