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[ludachris]

I just started working with an old 2.2 installation that uses the STS template system. Here's what I'm having trouble with... I'm having problems with links being altered when editing the manufacturer pages. I jump into Manufacturers and select one to Edit. There are two fields involved in this issue - "URL" and "Manufacturer Description".

The URL field contains the manufacturer name with no spaces. It is the URL for the manufacturer page itself and also part of the URL to the product_info pages... it creates the link structure for the links in the manufacturers box for the left column. SiteName.com/manufacturername/productid.hml is the structure for the product_info page URL - the bolded portion is what shows up in the URL input field on the Edit page. Remove the productid.html and you have the structure of the URL for the manufacturer pages and links.

Here's where it gets tricky - if I try to add any href HTML code in the Manufacturer Description textarea field, pointing to a few select product pages, I need to structure the href tags to look like this "/manufacturername/productid.hml". That's the actual path to the product pages. However, when I hit save and go check the page, the manufacturer name and forward slash are being stripped from the links. The links are showing up like this "SiteName.com/productid.hml", missing the manufacturer names.

I've looked at .htaccess files in the root and in other places. I've checked countless other files and can't find where this is happening. Does anyone know A. why it's being stripped, B. where I can find the code, C. what I might break if I find the code and remove it, and D. if there's a way to place those links in the Description field without messing with the code?

Thanks in advance.