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I am trying to build a custom menu in Drupal to take users directly to specific event sign up pages in the CiviCRM module (CiviEvents).  CiviCRM uses urls like this: civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=5. Notice the ampersand in the url. 

When I paste that link into the path field in the Add Item page for a menu item, the resulting menu is displayed but the url for the link is civicrm/event/info%3Freset%3D1%2526id%3D5. This takes the user to a different page which is something I would prefer to skip over.

Is this a bug or is there a way to force the ampersand in the url to be displayed? If I turn clean urls off, the url looks right, but when I click on it it still shows up in the address bar with the HTML url encoding.

Drupal 5.9
CiviCRM 1.9.13019

Any ideas?

The short answer is... Drupal 6.x + CiviCRM 2.1 resolves this problem. Starting with those versions you will be able to use complete OR relative CiviCRM URL's as Drupal menu items.

EXAMPLE
A relative link to an online contribution page:

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

This works in Drupal 6.x with CiviCRM 2.1 (which will be hitting Alpha shortly).

For Drupal 5.x with CiviCRM 2.0 or 1.9 you will need to use a complete URL

 http://<drupal site>/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1

I know this is an older post, but I wanted to comment that David's suggestion worked form me.

I changed my menu path from:
   civicrm/profile/create&reset=1&gid=2
to:
   civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=2

and now I can display a profile page from a Drupal menu path.

Thanks David!