Url from external txt file not being read

(anyone else have panic attacks trying to think of the most informative and concise title for a thread?)

Anyway…

I’ve inherited a menu bar (www.ensim.com). You can see that when you hover over the buttons (most of them, anyway) you get a drop down with subnav links.

The way they did it was to populate the movie clip with text from an external .txt file, so you could easily add sub links and change urls and stuff. Nifty idea.

The problem is a new url I’m trying to add apparently contains an escape character that it doesn’t like. The new url is “/index.asp?page=solutions&sec=voip”. When that goes in there, it won’t write the link lable (<a href=“borked url”>This doesn’t show up</a>)

Sort of weird, I kind of assumed that, being a plain old txt file, it would just spit it out and move along. Anyone know a way around this?

Thanks in advance.

Rick