Hypertext links in Acrobat8 documents generated from FM8 don't work

[Austin Meredith]

>We are feeling as if Adobe has just sabotaged our entire 15-year 
>project. How could they have offered an "upgrade" that destroys hypertext?

Our Kouroo project now has 212,974 files that have already been saved 
as FM8 since we "upgraded" a few weeks ago, so going back to FM7 
seems difficult. We are, however, beginning to scheme a feasible 
"workaround" to give Adobe time to get its act together in regard to 
hypertext and FM8. FM8 does allow us to save an FM8 file in the FM7 
format, and FM7 does generate valid hypertext in an Acrobat document. 
So, *if* we can have both FM8 and FM7 installed at the same time (if 
there is a way to keep them from interfering with each other), and 
*if* we don't use any UNICODE or other features that would be 
destroyed in the retro-save as FM7 (and if Acrobat8.1 can still 
handle hypertext), a possible "workaround" would be: to first save an 
FM8 document as a FM7 document before attempting to generate any 
Acrobat8.1 document with hypertext. That seems feasible if it's doable.

The three questions associated with this feasible "workaround" would 
be: 1.) is there a way to have FM8 and still have FM7 also? --and, 
2.) are there any new FM8 features that we cannot allow to be 
destroyed by saving as FM7? --and, 3.) does the 8.1 version of 
Acrobat still accept hypertext?

Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Are the above three items doable?