Simulated helvetica small caps not displayed acceptably in PDF

It's a never ending battle, this trying to get some sense out of computers. In a post earlier this year (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1287805#12878) I asked how to overcome the lack of proper small caps in Helvetica. Sandee came back with a suggestion, which I followed up, and it seemed to give reasonable results. And within InDesign, and when printed, it works.
However, when I export to PDF the small caps are not shown correctly on the screen. (The PDF file can be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nmjlhmiwt3i). They look a mess unless you zoom in about 500%. They print okay, but I'm not having a messy looking PDF sent to the printer. It's nothing but offputting.
If that was the only difficulty I could probably accept it, but I intend making my two books freely available for download in PDF form and I certainly don't want rubbish-looking fonts on display.
It looks like my mock small caps may have to be replaced with caps.
QUES 1
Is it possible to make my mock small caps display acceptably on the screen within a PDF? I have tried exporting to PDF at various resolutions, and with optimize for web turned on and off, but that makes no difference.
QUES 2
Another option is to get hold of a Helvetica font (or similar) that does have small caps. Where could I get hold of one of those?
The original InDesign file from which the PDF was obtained, can be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/?zddtj5m5d3q in case anyone wants to play around.

Thanks for the responses. I'm surprised the PDF looked okay, so I've emailed it to half a dozen people to see how it looks on their system. Maybe it's my screen or my Adobe Reader that's at fault.
I have attached two screen captures of what it look like on my screen. One at 100%, the other at 200%.
I'd like to continue using Helvetica because it's the one I've used in about 200 sidebars. If I change fonts, I imagine I could be days cleaning up the text oversets or undersets. I did think of changing fonts, and looked at all the sans serifs on my system, including the Open Type ones, but none had small caps. And buying an expert set: I could spend the next two days trying to sort out where to buy one of those and whether it actually contain small caps. Plus, I can't justify a price in excess of $100 for the sake of 400 words.

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