> I've come across an occaisonal problem on websites 
> with pages with improper HTML.  What happens is the 
> URL for a link on that site is given with two '/' 
> forward slashes in it.

Err, can you give the exact (bogus) URL which causes 
this problem? I can not convert "//" into "/" in all 
urls, as some sites (I think an "web archive" site 
uses this) are using "//" in their syntax.