side view or popup view of another page

Hello,

I have a very large document (3000 pages) which is a report with references to tables and figures in the appendices. When the user is reading the report they will often click on a link that references a table or figure in the appendices, and it will jump to that page. Then the user needs to go back to the original page to continue reading. Often they will get lost doing this.

Instead of that I would like to set up the link so that the target page is shown in a side view, and the original page remains at the same location. The side view could rather be a popup display of target page if that is easier to implement.

Since the users who are looking at the document are not too computer savvy, I dont want the user to configure Adobe Reader every time they load the document to get the side view (or popup view). It should do it automatically.

Is there any way (using javascript, multiple documents, portfolios, or whatever) to get this behavior?

Thank you

We have Acrobat 8 pro, but are willing to upgrade to 9 pro if that is required.