Getting trouble with my Lotus Notes UI Automation please help.

Lotus Notes UI Automation. I am running on SQL Server ’05 and using Lotus Notes 6.5 to 8.5.1. I am using Visual Basic 2008 to mechanize Lotus Notes UI to make e-mails in HTML. This contains a link to a website. For example, the link is “http://www.example.com/abc.asp?def=TRUE&Ref=123.” This works on Internet Explorer, but then I check the link in the sent items, “&Ref=123” changed to “&Ref%123” and the link does not work anymore. This happens to all of the hyperlinks. How do you stop this?
