ms word links converted to acrobat links

I am having some problems with creating some pages on an intranet site. I use ms word docs contaning links to pdf file “destination names”. I then convert that doc to a pdf file and lose the links to the original destination pdf file “destination names”. This is on a local intranet site. I use Word 2000, Acrobat Standard 6.0, and the entire URL address with the “destination name” syntax. It appears that the link changes from -link to a web page- to -link to a file- when the conversion takes place and therefore will not work. I know I can change the “action” of a link once I am in Acrobat, but that is too time consuming. Any help would be appreciated.