Oops. I wrote "I'm mystified by this part, near the top of your source code: " Here I copied the code, but of course it has been interpreted as an empty link.

Trying again:

< FONT face="Comic Sans MS" > < A href="misc/contents.htm" > < /A > < /FONT >

There's nothing but an empty space where I would expect to see a link. What's it for?