Could you copy paste your complete URL in IDE and give a try? (or) give me your complete URL...Otherwise - I have tried this long url test on msn (just for testing), it is all working for me -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="
http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="
http://www.msn.com/" />
<title>New Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">New Test</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>/</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>click</td>
<td>link=exact:Schwarzenegger & troops?</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pause</td>
<td>2000</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>//div[@id='results_container']/div[2]/div/div/h2/div/a/strong</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>
