Add hyperlink in mail is adding extra characters to URL

When I paste the add a hyperlink to a page called Recent News on my .mac site, extra characters are added to the url causing the page not to be found.
"...Site/Recent%20News/D3A....html" becomes "...Site/Recent%2520News/D3A....html". I have no problem adding a hyperlink for my welcome page. Any ideas?

I don't know how to fix it, but I can at least tell you what's happening. The "%20" is the encoding for a space character in a URL, " ". This is being turned into "%2520" because the "%" is being encoded as "%25" (the encoding for "%" in a URL), so "%20" is turning into "%2520".

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