Mimosa - Your blue clicky wouldda worked, had you placed the actual URL inside the refernce command, rather then the thread name. You posted (I've used () inlieu of the larger then, smaller then symbols in my example).

(a href="New Session for Dallas/Ft Worth Folks")New Session for Dallas/Ft Worth Folks(/a)

If you had typed (a href="http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23738&messages=145")New Session for Dallas/Ft Worth Folks(/a)

It wouldda worked!