Stability of pdf bookmark structure from InDesign

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As soon as I put the TOC button on each books cover, the TOC in the book stopped working and goes to the book cover. When I use the Acrobat link tool, the destination has become "p0". I manually enter the destination page within the doc, but this is fragile.
My goal is to burn the six book pdfs and the TOC pdf to CD for distribution. What makes this TOC to PDF data so fragile? How do I need to build and save my ID docs stronger? I can do this, but I just don't see where this "p0" is coming from. I am posting to Acrobat forum as well. Thanks

I have been rebuilding this set of ID files to PDFs as I stated. In the process I have clarified for myself how to get a good TOC by not expecting text generated by ID, in this case, the section marker instead of the desired TOC styled text. So I am getting clean TOC and pdf bookmarks now.
But the next step in this project has been to build a good NAV document in ID so that when I burn them all to a CD for distribution the user can navigate using buttons. In my case buttons added to the cover page of each PDF that take the user back to the CD NAV file. The NAV file has links that take the user to an individual book.
I'm finding a lot of instability in this process of coaxing the various NAV buttons to both work and not do stuff like dropping nested styles from the a book file's individual style sheet, reversing the order of styles in the TOC style option, or like you responded to here, changing the bookmarks from the TOC to this "p0" after putting on the front NAV button.
I have gotten all the pdfs for both the books and NAV document finalized and burned to a CD, where they seem to work. I am now trying to figure out what is causing all these ID reconfigurations of my styles and TOC bookmark destinations.

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