Relative Hyperlinks in an Interactive InDesign Document

Hi to everybody!
I'm working in an interactive document with InDesign 5.5 that export to a SWF file, and in the document I'm made buttons that link to PDF document, but the problems is that the route to documents is "absolute"...
Anybody know any solutions to do this links "relatives"?
I tried with an "URL" hyperlink and put the PDF in the same folder that the SWF exported document but doesn't open in the web browser
Thanks in advance
Alberto

Ok I try to go one step beyond...
if I put in the url dialog for example
PDF/document1.pdf
and I put the documents in a folder in the same folder where the .swf
and... WORKS
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