Using hyperlinks in Indesign : Problem

When I try to link to a URL, InDesign usually changes it to a URL that does not exist.
For example :
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?hp#/?part=tunnel-creek becomes
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/%3Fhp%23/%3Fpart%3Dtunnel-creek
How can I prevent this from happening?

@Ellis – MariP should patch InDesign to the latest point product version and be fine with that. :-)
Hm. That said, I wonder, if URLs will be converted to the right encoding, if you open a v8.0.1 file in InDesign v8.0.2 or a wrong encoded v9.0 file in InDesign v9.1.0…
Uwe

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Hello John... Thanks.. My problem in large part stems from the way InDesign handles hyperlinks and what happens during the pdf process.. I have been having real problems with the "shared" destination default etc.. Anyways: then I had to put in a twitter link and I couldn't find any clear description of how to do this in InDesign or the help community. I went around in circles.. The problem was with html tags.. and twitter exceptions and etc.. Anyways: the whole thing worked out after I spent many hours on the net.. mostly trying to find the right language to use to phrase the problem.. Not being a "tweeter" complicated issues.. (I had to do this for those who do tweet)... The answer, in short was this:
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Note: The above contains the message (after the text=) which must use %20 in lieu of any spaces in the text description. Then after the &url= paste the short url that you copied from the embed code.
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I think that the big obstacle for me is that i don't want to hide any pages so well, so slickly, that they can be found only by the most focused and persistent website visitor. I can see how some pages could be lost to a lot of casual website viewers.
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Lorna, mostly from reading books, Iearned the following things.
•Don't make me think (actually the title of an excellent book on webdesign)
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IMHO, iWeb lends itself fairly well for these last 2 criteria. The Navbar is a very useful tool and I suggest you do not go too far away from it.
On my current issue of the toy theatre magazine (which is NOT a beautiful website) I wanted to go in 3 languages; English, German and Dutch. I knew i was courting disaster but one can be so ambitious. This in fact meant that I had to do 3 sites. Sites being defined as a group of pages structurally belonging to each other.
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Working on a pretty intense automated page layout which creates a product cut sheet based from content that is on the web (using AppleScript). One feature I'm trying to build in is to convert typical HTML href tags to an actual hyperlink in InDesign.
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---CONVERT HREFS TO HYPERLINKS------------------------------------------------------
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