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Kat,

You can use Shlomo Perets' Timesavers to set up the PDF bookmarks any
way you want, see http://www.microtype.com/timesavers.html and
http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html This tool will allow you to
set things up at the FM end to  merge the two separate chapter
bookmarks onto a single line (see MergeBookmarks option).

However, do you really need to have the Chapter number in an
interactive document? With formatting (both font and colour) available
for the bookmarks (via Timesavers) the hierarchy can be made extremely
visible. Either way, it should work for you.

If you also are using chapter-page numbering on your pages, then Rick
Quatro's PageLabeler plug-in (see
http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/pagelabeler/index.htm) can preserve
this numbering in the PDF pagenumbering display (i.e. the page numbers
match the displayed numbers, not the just absolute page sequence
numbers).

There's usually always a workaround, albeit you may need a third-party
tool for this. If you're creating lots of interactive PDFs, then I
highly recommend that you take a good serious look at Timesavers.