Sorry, but if you know the answer can you please email me......wolcott007@msn.
com

Have you tried to google on terms you don't understand?

Absolute link, means the entire file path is spelled out, it's explicit,
absolute. Example - http://www.barvin.com/508.aspx 

Relative link, means only the path to file itself is used, being relative to
the root. Example - images/img001.jpg

For your purposes you need relative links. Pub usually writes relative links
to it's site files. If you have links that are explicit to the local drive
then those are absolute links and there is a reason behind it using absolute
links that you need to identify. All the site files that Pub writes in the
Export, you should be able to copy to any source, be it a drive, a cd, a
server, and the links will remain intact.

Some reasons that Pub writes an absolute link ... you specified one in the
hyperlink dialog; the link is not to a site file but rather to a external
file you browsed to; you coded one using an html code fragment; you have some
site objects on a master page.