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I'm trying to add links for some Civi pages to the Drupal menu and running into some sort of escaping problem:

I add a menu item with a path of civicrm/user?reset=1, but when I click on the link the browser tries to load civicrm/user%3Freset%3D1. Civi appears to treat this like an unknown path and defaults to the Civi Home page at civicrm/dashboard?reset=1

I'm guessing some sort of escaping of the ? and = is needed, but how?

Yeah, it's Drupals menu system that's doing that conversion.
But I was wondering if any civi/drupal users have had the same problem and how they've got round it ... 

I've had the same problem. Here's what you have to do (thanks to Gregory Heller at CivicActions):

Create a page node, select php for the input format and use the drupal goto function like this:

<? php
drupal_goto($path = 'civicrm/contribute/transact', 'reset=1&id=1')
?>


where the url for the civicrm contribution form is mysite.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1

Either use the menu feature of nodes (where in the node add/edit form you create your menu item) or visit admin/build/menu to add a menu item for your drupal page node you just created.

I've been meaning to verify this fix for a while... and IT'S TRUE... You will be able to use relative CiviCRM URLs as paths for Drupal menu items. I just tested with CiviCRM trunk (2.1 development) and Drupal 6.2 - and added a link to an online contribution page using this path:

civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&action=preview&id=1

It works perfectly :-)

BTW in Drupal 5.x I'm pretty sure you CAN use CiviCRM links without them getting "mangled" BUT you have to use the full URL (e.g. http://yoursite.org/civicrm/.... ).