> >   Redirect links such as:
> > <http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8833336/>
> This might be a general link parsing issue

Well, the http:// thing after the query separator should not be a big deal.
Some archiving systems embeds :// in the file part, if I remember well. But
the wayback machine "just" embeds javascript to rewrite links internally
(which is quite hard to support)