Hello Dan,
Being from the old school and believing IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT, meaning just go back to the old way of doing things and have the user put in the HTML code to establish the link if they want to or just use cut and paste of the web address. I just put a question mark at the beginning of the web address to fool the program bug. Most users can figure out the mistake and substitute the proper character, which being, is "h"
Example:
http://panda.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~achapwes...S2/ps2.htm
?ttp://panda.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~achapwes/PICmicro/PS2/ps2.htm
Regards,
Charles Bannister