Using with prepopulate module

I am trying to add prepopulate query strings to the link in my footer of the view.

I try to add link path like thus:

node/add/image?edit[field_gallery][0][nid][nid]=%1

and the resulting link on the page becomes this:

node/add/image%3Fedit%5Bfield_gallery%5D%5B0%5D%5Bnid%5D%5Bnid%5D%3DGallery

Which I don't know how to work around. There is probably an urlencode or something going on. Is it neccessary?

I also tried to add stuff into the Link querystring, like this:

edit[field_gallery][0][nid][nid]=%1

But it doesn't work, it just disappears upon updating the "Link querystring" form field. I also tried with "?" in front of the query string.

Any help would be apprecieated; for the moment I will just remove locally any urlencoding I can find in the module.