After further testing, and ar0n's patient help, I think I finally understand the *real* problem.

It seems that CB strips out ID links pointing to nodes that don't exist. For example, try /msg'ing thig to yourself: A [id://999999|bad link]., which will return A .

I can understand why that happens, but would prefer to have the CB return the bad link.

It's not a bad regex; it's a design decision. =P

So, um, would it be possible to, er, reconsider it?

--f