It worked regardless.
That's why most of the time I do it
this way.
I took the link you provided and just deleted all that crap after the item number. I've found that eBay will display the auction fine with just the first part of address you provided.
I don't know if itis a bug, or perhaps C:Amie limites the string length for some reason using the link option...or maybe it is the format of the url that does it. We'd have to ask him.