TOC in Acrobat

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I made a TOC for a bookk that is about 1,000 pages. I made the TOC include hyperlinks upon generating the book. The hyperlinks work just fine in the Frame source. However, when the book is printed to pdf (I've tried both printing to .ps and straight to .pdf), the TOC links in the .pdf malfunction randomly - many go to a completely different chapter, some go to the right chapter, but not to the heading selected, a few work fine. There does not seem to be rhyme or reason.
Thanks in advance if you can shed some light...as always the case, time is running short as I figured this last step was a cakewalk.

Just to clarify something, when you say the links are broken randomly...
Do you mean that in one build, some links will work and others not... and in the next build, they're not consistent? A Chaper 3 that worked at first will not?
Or do you mean that the links are consistent but broken -- that the working links keep on working and the broken ones are consistently broken from build to build ?
And, to try to debug this, I think I'd create a new book and copy 3-4 content files from your original book to the new book. Save each one as a MIF file to clean out any old markers or stray characters, open the MIFs, and save them as FM files. Then add a TOC to the new book, save, update and PDF to see what happens. If the links work, the problem is likely to be either in the original book file or the original TOC. If they're still inconsistent, the problem is more likely to be in your setup or configuration.
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