External hyperlink issue

HI -I’m brand new here thanks for having me.

So I have a menu with dynamic text that reads variables from a txt file working fine…
EXCEPT when my hyperlink is trying to pass some kind of argument,
such as a link to a google map for example.
in other words …

[COLOR=“Sienna”]this works:[/COLOR]
http://maps.google.com/

[COLOR=“Sienna”]this doesn’t:[/COLOR]
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=10990&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=41.270324,-74.360275&spn=0.118958,0.328217&om=1&iwloc=addr

any help, suggestions further knowledge on the subject will make me and my client very happy. thanks.