why does drupal_urlencode break my links

i had this posted earlier but wanted to change title now that i see where my menu link is getting busted

from before

in 4.6 site i had a primary link defined as:

<a href="flexinode/table/1?sort=asc&order=When" class="active">Events </a>

when i update to 4.7 i get a new entry in menu table as Events with path of

flexinode/table/1?sort=asc&order=When

this all seems ok.. BUT...

in 4.76 site hovering over link i get:

flexinode/table/1?sort=asc&order=When

which goes to: flexinode/table/1?sort=asc&order=When

in 4.7, when hovering over link i get:

flexinode/table/1?sort=asc%26order=When

which goes to:

flexinode/table/1%3Fsort%3Dasc%2526order%3DWhen

which is WAY wrong..

after a little debug i can see that the path gets "busted" at drupal_urlencode() function

if i comment out contents of this function my link functions correctly - BUT.. i am sure there is a reason for it being this way it is; i just dont get it.

peter...