Why does Top Sites reject a specific URL addition

I have bumped into a specific URL that cannot be added to Top Sites graphically, from Bookmarks or from any source I tried using a drag, yet can be added by using the Bookmarks/Add Bookmark/"where to keep it" pull-down.
The amount of time I just wasted learning this empirically was insulting, maybe an hour to tie up the loose ends. In the end, I can march down my Bookmarks testing every link and some can be added while some can't, nothing to do with the specific link I started with.
Is there a guideline anywhere specifying what types of URL's have this problem (feature?), and more generally why the method used to add an URL could possibly have anything to do with anything? Anything along the lines of WHY would be refreshing as I haven't found any info on this issue on the WWW.
Trying to leapfrog the obvious questions; yes, I've done it before, and yes, BannedURL STrings was cleared and relaunched from TopSites.plist.
I also wouldn't mind knowing why such an obvious affordance like an "X" bans a URL instead of simply deleting the Top Site from the list in "Edit" mode, but that's a whole 'nuther topic.

I'm going to call my own question answered because I believe I understand, but I don't want to spend more time proving it.
It would appear, simply, that similar pages in question don't behave similarly. As a browser there's nothing I can do about it so I failed in generalizing. There's obviously an HTML code feature that is not implemented evenly by those coding stereotypically similar pages, relating to saving or caching. Meh.

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