Can't open pdf from hyperlink saved on thumb drive

I've got a doc going to a conference where there may not be internet access (egads, you say!) So, I saved a few asp.net pages to a thumb drive (using the full htm), edited the menu hyperlinks so the menu links pointed to the thumb drive's local directory. Made sure the css for the tab images pointed locally, etc. But, I have a hyperlink on a page to a pdf on the thumb drive. The hyperlink will NOT open the pdf. I've tried a regular hyperlink, I've also tried the javascript onclick=top.window.open approach and can't get it to open. When I browser the thumb drive and click it directly, everything opens fine. Just to be sure I hadn't done anything really stupid, I copied the name of the file into the html hyperlink. Any help?

[Edit - Moved OPs answer here - Henry]
Okay, BTW I also tried the straigh href hyperlink. residentManual.pdf is in same root folder as file.

<form id="aspnetForm" name="aspnetForm" action="hos_policies.aspx?a=0" method="post">
<div>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="contentinnertube">
<h1>Graduate Medical Education</h1>&lt;img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Image3" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px solid" alt="Resident Photo" src="hos_policies_files/photoFHCPeds.jpg" align="right"&gt;
<a href="#" önclick="top.window.open ('residentManual.pdf','800x300','toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no,location=no,menubar=no,directories=no,width=800,height=300')">Resident Manual  (pdf)</a>
</img></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>

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Tags: HTML, PDF