Reader not opening links in my PDF doc

I have an intranet site for our department and I want to link to our Policy & Procedures. The documents are broken down by chapters. So there's a Table of Contents PDF with links to each section (which are also in PDF form) and each section has a link back to the Table of Contents page.
The documents are located on our local server, so I created a link on the site for the Table of Contents that opens in Reader with no problem. The links are set to open a different document for each section, but there's only one link in the Table of Contents that works and opens the document. The other links for the different sections/pdf don't open at all. But if I go to the document location on our server and open it from there the links in the Table of Contents PDF work fine.
Any ideas what might be preventing me from opening the links when I download the PDF from the site?

Nevermind! I figured it out!
When I downloaded it from the site, it went to my "Downloads" Folder where there was one other document (the one that was working) so it was able to access it since they're in the same folder, but it couldn't access the others cause they're not.

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