Netscape not returning comlete HTTP link

[Anon]

I have a PHP3 page that has the following code on it:
<tr>
<td width="14">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="451"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">To
view the FAQ for this school - <?php echo("<a href=/forms/faq/$faq>click here</a>") ?></font></td>
</tr>

In IE the above code returns the URL of:

http://www.company.com/forms/faq/1bfaq.htm

In Netscape 4.5 the return value is:
http://www.company.com/forms/faq

A similar problems occurs when using the following code

<td width="451"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">To
link to this schools web site - <?php echo("<a href=http://$web>click here</a>") ?></font></td>

Netscape only returns-- http://

I have checked to make sure that the </table> tag exists.

Thank you for you assistance

[Anon]

Are you absolutely sure that your variables contain clean data? Leading or trailing whitespaces would produce problems similar to what you describe.